Re: the REAL ISSUE


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Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on October 02, 2007 at 07:05:14 from 82.27.23.50 user Laurence_.

In Reply to: Re: . . about the Beckfoot plumbers - the REAL ISSUE posted by Peter H on October 01, 2007 at 21:13:09:

the inexplicable absence of any mention of ‘sanitary arrangements’,

Ah - but this is not absolute.

Coot Club is another case where six people are living in a very small area - in this case the Teasel and Titmouse - with most of the time little opportunity to go ashore - in all senses of the word go.

And in the plan of the Teasel in CC Chapter 5 the unmentionable necessity really does appear - at the front of the fore cabin just abaft the mast, just where it indeed was in this sort of boat.

By contrast it does not appear in pictures of Goblin in WD, nor does the little porthole which is quite conspicuous when you look at Nancy Blackett . The real thing in Nancy Blackett is very small and right in the bows of the ship - I have occasionally pondered on how this might have been the final straw for those feeling frail during that night at sea - but we know from Chapter XXVII that Goblin had a bucket!


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