Re: Mouth-opening-and-shutting


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Posted by Sally Storey on November 05, 1997 at 03:56:10:

In Reply to: Mouth-opening-and-shutting posted by Tim Johns on October 30, 1997 at 10:43:53:


As one of the intermitant age of seventeen, between child and adult, and having read alll the S and A books I think that I may be able to enlighten you on this subject.

I agree that children, and from what I've seen people in general, rarely think before they speak. For this reason, and a persons pride that prevents their retraction, statements are made that cause everlasting and momentoue events. I believe that many great wars could have been started this way.

In relation to the S and A references it could be a case of teaching a leason. It has been demonstarted through tar board and centreboard, that Arthur Ransome is a man whom many respect, therefore if this was the intention it is admirable.

I agree that the references probably have some conection to his life, maybe he regrets the times he didn't think before he spoke, perhaps he caused a small war to start, due to his ferocity of speech.

Personally, I believe that it is characteristic of the surrealism of the novels themselves. I love the novels yet one has to admit that the adventures on Wild Cat Is., with Captian Flint and Swallowdale are not really the satuff of real life. My sister and brother and our friends tried throught the years, as did my father and aunt and uncles, their adventures. Yet it has been acknowledged that the carefree life, without fussy parents, bickering, bossy nannys and looming school days, is a figment of the authors imagination. There are many issues to cloud these days, and therefore I would conclude that the 'opening of the mouths then shutting them' and the preoccupation of sleep and waking (which is another thing I never thought about until I grew up and started off-shore racing) is just another relfection of the books charming lack of reality.


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