Re: Water on the carbide in detail


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Posted by G. Andrews on November 24, 1997 at 02:59:30:

In Reply to: Water on the carbide posted by Gareth Andrews on November 21, 1997 at 03:04:14:


First of all, my apologies for the the very brief and somewhat cryptic message I left on this noticeboard previously. I was running short of time and it was my first attempt ever at posting any thing anywhere on the net. This machine works!!
Some more details. As we all know, A.R's work was always meticulous in detail, paying attention to the smallest of matters. I have found two slip-ups however, that appear between Pigeon Post and The Picts And The Martyrs.
Firstly, in PP in Chapter 3. When in Slater Bob's mine Dick explains to Roger how they used gunpowder. 'Look,' said Dick. 'They must have blasted with gunpowder. You can see one side of the hole they bored for their charge'.
BUT inTPATP in Chapter 24 Dick has to ask 'But how is it done?' and Slater Bob shows Dick the narrow groves in the rock. 'Yon's what's left of a boring. You bore a hole to take the cartridge ...etc."
How is it that Dick knew all about it in PP but had to be taught later in TPATM? Hmmmmmm.
Secondly, several times in PP Ch.3 A.R. describes the acetylene lamp, referring to it as 'a dazzling, hissing flame'. Yet no-one takes much notice of it. But in Ch.24 of TPATM Peggy (not Nancy) wants to know 'What's that hissing?'. Perhaps these lamps become noisier as they get older !!. I know I am being very very picky on the second point, but for Dick to understand blasting in PP and not later in TPATM is a rather un-Ransom-ish mistake.
Has anyone else come across similar anomolies in the series ?


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