Re: Q and A-"and a child shall lead us"


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Posted by Ed Kiser on April 09, 2004 at 19:17:42 from 205.188.116.10 user Kisered.

In Reply to: Q and A posted by John Turnbull on April 09, 2004 at 00:12:08:

Quoted from PM, Chapter 10:

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The moment was too serious and Nancy had begun making
her semaphore signals the instant she saw them.

"Get a bit of paper, somebody, quick," said John, "Peggy and
I'll read out the letters." He signalled to Nancy to wait.

...

An old stone sundial stood up in the middle of the lawn. It was
just the right height. Dorothea scraped the snow off it to make a
dry place for her book, and was ready to scribble down the letters
as the others called them out.

"Q-U-I. We've got those already." said John. "C-K. End of
word. I. End of word. C-A-N-T. End of word. L-O-C-K. End of
word. E-S-K-I-M-O-S. End of word. O-U-T. End of word.

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This seems to indicate that Nancy began signalling before Dot had
dug out her notebook. John tells Dot "Q-U-I. We've got those already."
This seems that he simply repeated from memory those first few letters
that Nancy had just sent. She resumed signalling with "C-K".

So it looks like that the picture shows a mismatching of events in that
the signal for "Q" from Nancy was all over with before Dot started her
notebook writing, yet the picture shows Dot writing from the very
beginning of Nancy's signalling. So these two events happened at two
different points of time.

A very astute observation from a young reader. Especially as it seems
she knows her codes, or maybe she just looked up this particular one.
Either way, it turns out to be more of artistic license rather than a
snapshot of a moment in time.

Just goes to show, there is something new, even in those that are thought to be old.

Kinda makes one want to reread these things - AGAIN - and see what shows
up this time that somehow, in previous passes, just got skipped, or
perhaps, just forgotten. Therein lies the thrill of discovery.

Ed Kiser, South Florida


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