Posted by Peter Ceresole on November 15, 2006 at 19:54:07 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: broken rule: Re: Coddling children posted by Jenny Berki on November 15, 2006 at 14:02:42:
Somewhere (where?) John says that he & Roger will go into the Navy when they're older, and Roger doesn't disagree with this. Although Roger's interested in engines, while John's a true sail man.
I always found it interesting that Roger, as written by AR, was so close to the way his prototype, Roger Altounyan, turned out. Roger (the real one) went into the RAF, rather than the Navy who might have turned him down anyway because of his asthma, and was clearly very interested in the technology. In fact his subsequent career as a scientist was more Dick-like than anything else. But AR couldn't have known any of this when he wrote the books.