So today I was reading TEA for like the one-millionth time and I noticed something I had never realized before - in the 6th chapter where Thursday talks about her "short excursion" into Jane Eyre, and they are taking the tour of the Bronte home and someone asks about the ending and the tourguide asks "And what would you prefer? The forces of good and evil fighting to the death in the corridors of Thornfield Hall?"

And, then it hit me - Hello! That is EXACTLY what happens in the end of TEA! The forces of good (Thursday) and evil (Acheron) DO fight to the death in corridors of Thornfield Hall.

Ah, the simple joys of foreshadowing :)

H'mmm. I'd overlooked that connection until now. Thank you for pointing it out.

Oh, and welcome to the fforum.



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Logic is like Fire, a good servant but a bad master.

I also noticed that chapters 15 and 25 are entirely third person narratives, kind of like new scenes in a movie which kind of makes sense given Jasper's background...

Yes, they leave Thursday, I didn't quite get that as he had said that he wanted to write it all in first person, I just lived to accept it.

And welcome, cake?



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'Pompadour,' spat my mother. 'Living in sin with his pompadour.'

I seem to remember he commented that TEA was originally a third-person book, which he then converted into first person. But he couldn't convert these chapters, and obviously couldn't think of a way of getting around it, so left them in.
And if authors like Dickens can get away with it, why shouldn't Jasper?



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Well, because it is submersed in a marine environment, I've always called it the Going-Under-The-Water-Safely-Device.

I thought they were cool. I just didn;t pick up on it the first time.

for future reference, don't look at the forum until you've finished the book. yes, silly me, i am halfway through the book and became interested in some of the references thus far. i decided to do a search and ended up here. i have had several points of the ending spoiled for me (thursday and landon and a battle with hades)...both of which i could have guessed, but it's more fun when it's a guess. so, here's my premature entry to the forum.

Welcome. Somebody should be around with the virtual cakes & drinks quite soon...

Virtual Cake, good chap? I'm afraid the TN4 forum has taken all the Batenburg, but we have some very amenable sponge...



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Turn the silliness to eleven!

Isn't there something (paragraph, page, bit of chapter....) written in the future tense in one of his books?



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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I'm re-reading TEA and found something in the above-named chapter that I hadn't realized first time around. To avoid starting a new thread, I'll tack it onto this one.

Thursday enters 'Jane Eyre', yes - but does she actually do so entirely on her own? There's a Japanese tourist lady who reads the lines to her, and I'm pretty sure it must be Mrs. Nakajima. Thursday gets *read into* the story!!

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Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless? (JRRT)



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i remember connecting that
i was so proud when i told all my friends,and they just looked at me with THAT LOOK. you know, THAT LOOK. the one that says "you idiot"

i was saddened

reading these posts i also found myself wondering what TEA was.

then it hit me

The Eyre Affair

duh