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      <title>Re: (uk edition) Page381 errors? (spolers)</title>
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      <author>ensoul</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I would have sworn that, instead of grammasites, the paragraph without e's was another Poe reference... after all, the Gadfly, etc. were from &quot;The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.&quot; I sort of assumed that the e-less bit had something to do with &quot;X-ing a Paragrab,&quot; silly me.]]></description>
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      <author>tieff</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Just been doing some rereading of the other books and the deleted scenes.
Friedland Chymes is in a deleted chapter (10 Event Horizon) from WOLP and Ashley is the official sidekick of Zhark's nemesis (see chapter heading notes in Something Rotten).]]></description>
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      <title>Re: spotting Thursday was (uk edition) Page381 errors? (spolers)</title>
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      <author>Lauren</author>
      <description><![CDATA[If you read The Eyre Affair when Thursday and Bowden are travelling through the patch of bad time, Thursday spots a green Austin Allegro pulling out in front of her and blasts her horn at it. Jasper is always doin things like that...]]></description>
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      <author>Barefoot Andy</author>
      <description><![CDATA[[i]So... from Thursday's point of view, do the events of TBOE happen in the future, or in a book?

The 'The Eyre Affair' film seems to suggest it happens in Thursday's real world future, but the presence of the nursary characters, ibb and obb and the general similarities to the book that Thurday stayed in in the Well makes me think otherwise.

Maybe its both...[/i]

I think I've worked it all out, or I'm bullpooing, one of the two. A lot of spoilers in here, like you really care

In Thursday's future, a Detective, possibly called Jack Spratt does this investigation into a perfectly non-eggy philanthropist.

He writes the memoirs, perhaps hoping to get into Detectives magazine.

It doesn't.

For reasons connected to the flexible time of the universe, the unpublished memoirs had construction begun 20 years earlier in the Well of Lost Plots. Since their original conception, their presence in the Well changed the storyline, due to the presence of Nursery rhyme characters, it's barely averted destruction, and interference of the Bellman. 

Many years later, while musing on her memories, Thursday decides to try to publish the book, to find it has warped beyond recognition, and is informed that it's release would reveal too much about the working of the well.

She conspires with her father to get the book Imagino-transferred to an alternative history, where the Well is less accessible. 
Her father recommends &quot;that fellow you sent [i]your[/i] memoirs to&quot; at which a confused Thursday points out she's not done anything like this before and her father denies the fact that he's done this, muttering something about &quot;having to put it fifth&quot;.

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      <author>SLIGHTCAP</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hey Jenny. Don;t worry about not understanding everything. That's what the reader's guides were written for. You can check them out [url=http://www.jasperfforde.com/readers.html]here[/url]

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      <author>jenny</author>
      <description><![CDATA[haven't you seen &quot;the foon was mull &quot; somewhere?
I, as a frecnh speaking reader am very happy to see people talking about those books (I read the 2 first in french, but could not wait for the translation and bought the three others in english).
My problem is that I don't know your british culture good enough to understand everything, and my english is not that good, and I certainly miss lots of jokes. 
I love these books though (Fforde is a genius in my opinion) and  I don't know any one to share with me. Thank you for this fforum. I'm not alone anymore.]]></description>
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      <author>Ffirefly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Dang - you people are good. I caught the colorful car passing them reference and noticed the entry paragraph to one of the chapters where the days of the week are the main wordplay, but I really hadn't gone the extra step with ibb and obb, the houseboat, etc.]]></description>
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      <author>robcraine</author>
      <description><![CDATA[So... from Thursday's point of view, do the events of TBOE happen in the future, or in a book?

The 'The Eyre Affair' film seems to suggest it happens in Thursday's real world future, but the presence of the nursary characters, ibb and obb and the general similarities to the book that Thurday stayed in in the Well makes me think otherwise.

Maybe its both...

R

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      <author>Nicky</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Good catch, Akril.

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      <description><![CDATA[[i]&quot;So then, is the appearance of Thursday's car specifically written in, as in a character playing Thursday in the novel, or is it Thursday herself visiting the Bookworld and just passing through when she accidentally gets caught in the action? I would like to think that it's the latter, and Thursday's speeding because her Narrative Proximity Detector just went off.&quot;[/i]

Thursday's appearance in The Big Over Easy actually already happened in The Eyre Affair, when she and Boden were moving through the patch of bad time:

&quot;It looked like winter, and from ahead of us a lime-green Austin Allegro estate pulled out from a slip road. I swerved and drove past at great speed, sounding my horn loudly.&quot; --US Edition, p. 280

That is some truly brilliant planning. I'm still stymied by those spoonerisms, though.


Akril



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      <author>Barefoot Andy</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Checked up on some other things: 


[b]*WOLP, SR AND BIG OVER EASY SPOILERS*[/b] ibb and obb later get renamed as Randolph and Lola, who end up together, despite their incompatibility in wolp. Also, Mary has problems with a guy called Arnold, and it glancingly mentions she lives in a houseboat. Hmmm, I'll have to check if all the named characters get the same names, (mrs.singh for example), but a lot of other stuff (the random appearance of prometheus, say) hints that this [i]is[/i] the same book. It's also possible that after Zhark's book gets rewritten in SR, there's a spare alien character left about - hence Ashley.
[b]*WHEW, THAT'S ALL*[/b]

And I [u]know[/u] I'm meant to keep WOLP spoilers off other boards as a courtesy to USA readers, but I don't think they'll be too bothered *snicker*

Oh and there's a reference to the ballistics guy hating Chymes something rotten...



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      <author>IHazon303</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Maybe she was chasing grammacites?

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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[So then, is the appearance of Thursday's car specifically written in, as in a character playing Thursday in the novel, or is it Thursday herself visiting the Bookworld and just passing through when she accidentally gets caught in the action?  I would like to think that it's the latter, and Thursday's speeding because her Narrative Proximity Detector just went off.]]></description>
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      <author>splat21</author>
      <description><![CDATA[IHazon303 wrote:

&gt; I would have liked to see how Mary's garden grew though
 
&gt; 

Sure, me too. Wonder if she runs a domestic cleaning agency from her back garden?

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      <author>IHazon303</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yeah, and Lord Spongg is obb. Or at least the other one to Lola. So it's nice that they get together at last. But then, if this book's been published, surely that means it's not in the well any more? I think there's a certification at the front stating the book's a designated safe book for characters to have a rest or something. I've lent it out so can't check. But it's just the book that Thursday took respite in when she had Friday, and this is the result of their efforts to improve it so it didn't get sent to the text sea.  I'm too tired to check details.

I would have liked to see how Mary's garden grew though



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      <author>LQ</author>
      <description><![CDATA[This one is set in the present day (2004 give or take a year; it's explicitly mentioned somewhere but can't remember which one), but at the same time this book - being set in the world with Nursery Rhyme characters, and hence not directly Thursday's world - is a adaptation of Thuirsday's world for the book (seeing as the book exists in Thursday's Well).  Lola is therefore the result of ibb's training (or obb, can't remember exactly which) and is the fctional representation of the real Lola Vavoom in Thursday's world.

It sort of makes sense.  But quite possibly only to me.]]></description>
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      <author>IHazon303</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Probably just grammacites...

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      <author>AK</author>
      <description><![CDATA[and then there's the ongoing references to Lola's film career, including her role in The Eyre Affair (you recall Lola was slated to play Thursday Next, much to Thursday's dismay!).... so I guess this book is set a few years after the Thursday Next ones (we are no longer in the 80s) - I wonder where she was going so impatiently...?

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      <author>LQ</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Oh yes, I remember both of those now...the &quot;Next Thursday&quot; is written as such, with both capitals (despite &quot;next&quot; not being the start of the sentence), so would probably appear a typo to anyone unaware, and I did notice the sports car at the time.  Just didn't remember it.]]></description>
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      <author>Andrea</author>
      <description><![CDATA[page 161 British edition - very end of chapter 18

&quot;She [Mary] pulled into the main road a little too quickly; a small sports car with the top downand a distinctive paint scheme appeared behind them and drove past at great speed, horn blaring.&quot;

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      <author>SLIGHTCAP</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I saw them. Excpet i think it actually said next thursday.

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      <author>mebbe</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I saw the words &quot;thursday next&quot; somewhere in the book, can't remember where, that's not what you mean is it?]]></description>
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      <author>LQ</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Uhmmm...forgive me for being stupid...but what sighting of Thursday?]]></description>
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      <author>Andrea</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I totally missed it on first reading lol and that was after reading about it here.

I did wonder if it was linked to the sighting of Thursday  but that was a lot earlier.  Perhaps this is where bookworld is leaking as the beanstalk grows.

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      <author>RookeeAlding</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Just to note in the Us edition it appears on page 366, just for all you from that side. 

It's soo big, it can't be a mistake. I was almost expecting someone from the other books to pop up or something like that, you know just to make a apperance. I had to stop and reread it quite a few times.]]></description>
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      <author>splat21</author>
      <description><![CDATA[ok

THURSDAY NEXT SPOILERS

It's a bit too complicated to explain really - you won't get it completely until you do read the books, especially the last two. Just to say that part of the work of the book world is to destroy various textual pests, one strain of which eats vowels, and another causes rampant mispeling...

/THURSDAY NEXT SPOILERS

nothing wrong with not having read them, it's just simpler to get what we're all on about if you have!

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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:04:17 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I’ve only read the first Thursday book as yet.

I know I know I’m sorry. I will rectify the situation soon

But what makes you think it’s a homage?

Don’t worry about spoiling anything, I know roughly what happens in them some one very close to me reads out all of the shocking bits. :lol:]]></description>
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      <author>ali_splat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I think it's probs just a quick homage to the Thursday Next books, myself...]]></description>
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      <author>pip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I didn't notice them until I read it a couple of times.  Oops.]]></description>
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      <author>domullan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[i thought at first the mistakes were to do with the problem with the printers in the gadfly but i'm not so sure now. looks like a conspiracy to me...]]></description>
      <category>The Big Over Easy</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:43:41 +0200</pubDate>
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