Re: fraternization


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Posted by Katharine Edgar on October 03, 2003 at 20:56:18 from 81.104.184.145 user Katharine.

In Reply to: Re: fraternization posted by John Lambert on October 03, 2003 at 19:59:06:

John Lambert's comments on Nancy's sex appeal (or lack of) were very funny.

I had always thought of it from the other angle - ie why on earth would Nancy want to go out with John? Surely she is too old, and too competent herself to be impressed by all that naval stuff. Dorothea might have a crush on him perhaps - and would be fantasising about dressing up as a boy and enlisting on his vessel. She would write a novel entitled 'The Captain and the Midshipman: A Romance of the Seas'.

If we follow the rule of Shakespearean comedy that everyone has to be paired off with someone else, my predictions are:
John and Peggy - because she is used to being told what to do.
Nancy and Timothy - this one comes from a close reading of the text; how else do we account for Nancy's 'queer feeling' in Pigeon Post?
Roger and Port/Starboard - someone suggested this a while back and it would be very, very funny
Susan and Tom Dudgeon - we assume Tom follows his father into the medicine biz, and Susan would make a splendid doctor's wife
Titty and Dick - they are left over, and sadly incompatible I fear.

New favourite line - from WH:
"'Dick,' she said, 'Dick, the sheep's died after all, and I can hear them making the coffin.'"





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