Posted by Peter Ceresole on October 12, 2003 at 12:57:08 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Are the D's the real heroes? -why no Ds in ML? posted by Katharine on October 12, 2003 at 11:59:23:
Peter, I absolutely love your characterisation of Dot as introducing a 'note of satire on writing, combined with bourgeois charm' - 'bourgeois charm' evokes the villagey world of Miss Marple etc beautifully.
I think it was more Gower Street than Compton Lacey, but it's certainly the English academic life. Remember the evocation of the streets of the city in WH:
"For some time already they had been lying half asleep, listening to the strange noises down in the yard, so very different from the roar of traffic in the streets ar home."
WH. p.17. Cape.
Where I lived- in Kensington, 1948, the streets roared too, as much as they could roar with petrol on the ration.
Lives there a small boy with a soul so dead that he does not- eventually- fall in love with Dorothea? I did...
"He stood on the ice, just ready to climb up, and looked at Dorothea in great astonishment. He was not angry. Nobody ever was angry with Dorothea."
WH. p.248. Cape. (Golly, isn't Winter Holiday GOOD?)
I reckon AR fell for her too.