Re: chronological order


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Posted by Robert Hill on May 28, 1998 at 12:21:47:

In Reply to: Re: chronological order posted by Terence McManus on May 28, 1998 at 06:03:34:

In Swallowdale Peter Duck is mentioned frequently as Titty's imaginary
friend, but if I remember correctly there are also allusions to the
story which forms the book Peter Duck. It seems to me that we can
respond to the references to the patched sail in PD in any of three
ways:

1) say it's an inconsistency

2) say that it is meaningless to talk about relative chronology between
Peter Duck stories and the rest

3) Adopt the line that, at the level of suspension of disbelief at
which we regard the non-PD stories as real, the story of Peter
Duck was something which developed in the minds of the characters
over time, and though substantially completed before Swallowdale,
it did not reach its final form until later.


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