Posted by Jock on August 04, 2005 at 16:59:19 from 217.172.246.144 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Childers and Ransome posted by Jeremy Kriewaldt on August 04, 2005 at 01:05:51:
Jock, I hadn't thought of SW or the Mastodon in that way before.
Jeremy, I hadn't either! When John wrote about the many other incidents in the books that teach sound ethical and political behaviour I started to rack my memory for examples. (I don't have the books to hand.) It struck me that the Mastadon's dilemma was the most difficult and most 'adult' of those that I could recall.
I first read Riddle many, many, years after last reading SW. It struck me then as Davies and Caruthers mapped the swatchways that "I've been here before. Of course, SW!" Now when considering the plight of the Mastadon the same feeling of deja vu, "Of course, Childers!".
Or if you prefer, "Of course, Childers and Ransome!"