I've just been re-reading TEA with great enjoyment -- noticing lots more this time round. One of the tings I've noticed is this: Thursday and Landen go to see Richard III on a Friday night, yet when Thursday gets back to the Finis Hotel, the Milton weekend is 'ending with a disco'. (Sorry for lack of page refs, I haven't got the book here -- I'm at work and the web is temptation enough.)

Have I missed something fundamental here, like weekends being Thursday and Friday in the Nextian world?

I'm very, very sorry if this has already been discussed -- but I couldn't find it.

Something else I'd like to comment on, although this is probably the wrong place, is the pleasing occurrence of Land Rovers in the series. There they are, in the background, steadily going about their work. Mine was born in 1985... maybe that accounts for its occasional strange behaviour.

BTW hello -- I'm new.

Welcome to the fforum, you'll find that it is the literary equivalent of a Land Rover test track - it goes on for miles and if you get the wrong gear you could be here a long time... Oh, and don't open your doors as you go through the deeper puddles...

I can't remember anything about weekdns being different, so I guess ssomebody ought to alert the Chronoguard...



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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.

You're not wrong. I'd also add 'always carry a shovel', especially after getting stuck in a nasty rut somewhere in the vicinity of Marlborough (yep, near Swindon...)

I'm collecting literary Land Rovers. Suzanne Cleminshaw in 'The Great Ideas' says 'don't get out of the Land Rover', and of course there's one described as 'rural as a turnip' in Michael Frayn's 'Headlong'. It has a pivotal role: a categary B supporting character, I'd say, but then I'm biased. Can't find any in poetry, despite ploughing through two immense 20th C. collections and the Faber Book of War Poetry.

Hi Safety Fox, welcome - I bet there's a Land Rover somewhere in Buchan (though not poetry!) and there must be loads of references in Gerald Hammond's books - we're very good at going off track here, so it's probs the ideal phorum vehicle...



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Yes, there certainly are quite a few references to Land Rovers in Gerald Hammond's books... but if by "Buchan " you mean John Buchan (of 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', 'The Courts of the Morning', 'John McNab', etc) then I think that he stopped writing before the first Land Rovers were built.

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Thanks for the tip-offs everyone! and as for going off track, I'm an expert!

I'm sorry to say I hadn't heard of Gerald Hammond so I've just paid a quick visit to Amazon... I suspect there might be literary land rovers in Andy McNab and Wilbur Smith, but despite the best efforts of my next-door neighbour I've been unable to get into them so I'm none the wiser.

I'm fully intending to read the entire 'Precious Ramotswe' series by Alexander McCall Smith as I'm sure one or two will have to crop up there -- plus some of my best land rover based experiences have been in Southern Africa, including Botswana where the novels are set. So far I have only read the first one, 'The Number-One Ladies Detective Agency', but I'd recommend it highly. Good holiday reading.

SF

I like them too SF - very gentle books in a funny kind of way.

Did wonder whether Buchan pre-dated Land Rovers, Simon - I was hoping someone would tell me if he did so thanks ;)



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

The first Land Rover appeared in 1948 if that's any help :-)

SF

Safety Fox, have you considered becoming part of the Jurisfiction Auto-mobile Division?

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Your annoying neighbourhood tween.

P.S If I haven't already said so...welcome to the Fforum!

Possibly worth mentioning for the upgrades SF.

Oh, and welcome to the fforum, we're all quite mad.

And (SMALL SPOILER AHEAD AVERT YOUR EYES!) there is a reference in LIAGB with the Cardenio forgery.



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