Has anyone else been pondering why Miss Haversham waited until Thursday arrived to go plug the hole in the plot where Magwich needs to escape in irons from the hulk?

Perhaps it is convenient in the plot for Thursday, but for so capable a character as Haversham she surely could have sorted this out without Thursday or the say so of the bellman.

Perhaps it is the existence of jurisfiction and each book as alternative universes that means that everything is occurring simultaneously, which would mean everything (including Thursday's expected entry as a child) is not delayed after all in any real sense for jurisfiction operatives or book characters.

Perhaps Havisham was so unhappy about helping a man, that she had seen the problem but didn't want to do it.

I think these books are wonderful for getting the thoughts ticking over. Thankyou Mr. Fforde!

yes, i agree...
but i absolutely love the cat!
he's like the one that holds it all together.
if mr fjorde is reading this, id have to agree with the fact that it is quite an exce;llent book!
meza

I'm not sure. I fyou're always running all over the place it's easy not to notice something in your own backyard. I've just discovered the mother of all moulds growing on my windowsill. It must have been there for ages, but I've only just noticed.

Plus I guess if there's adjectivores and grammarsites then they may be also be carnounvores that remove nouns such as 'lifebelt' - so that new boojums are being created all the time.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

The simultaneity of all fiction (as far as the Library is concerned) is a nice idea, and might explain some other details _ such as Shelley having only just gone sailing _ too. However I think that there are too many other details (e.g. Thursday being late, numbered sessions, the addition of new names to the boojumorial...) that provide evidence to the contrary. Maybe it's just that characters who belong inside particular works can't see any bloopholes or other inherent problems in those books, because these are parts of their "natural" environments, until somebody from elsewhere points them out?

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