Re: How was it all paid for?


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Posted by Jock on March 17, 2006 at 13:58:05 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: How was it all paid for? posted by John Nichols on March 16, 2006 at 21:47:02:

Jock I am sure your opinion on both things is different to David's unless I have severely misjudged you.

Absolutely!

Bob Blackett was killed off so that the real father of whoever was the model for the B's would not be in the story - maybe he would have sued.

This hypothesis 'fits' quite a lot of what is known.
i) Mr Crossley owned 'Esperance', Uncle Jim's the Houseboat;
ii) Mr Crossley owned a steam launch;
iii) Mr Crossley owned a Crossley car (his company built 'em!);
iv) Mr Crossley's summer holiday house, Huyton Hill, has the same relation to Lake Windermere as Beckfoot has to 'The Lake'.
v) Mr Crossley's daughters owned a sailing dinghy;
vi) They kept it in a boathouse decorated with a skull and crossbones;
vii) They sank their father's houseboat. (I bet Mr C was pretty annoyed!)
viii) One daughter was called 'Ruth'.

This hypothesis also 'fits' well with the books.

i) The early 'Uncle Jim' who so upset John - Mr Crossley;
ii) The GA as 'she who must be obeyed' - Mr Crossley.

- maybe he would have sued.

We have AR's word for it.

But then, as the book had at last to be brought to an end (though there was no reason why I should not have gone on forever) I began to be very much afraid. For though the children in the book had taken things so much into their own hands that I could never be quite sure what they were going to do or say next, there they were, labelled with the names of the Walkers. And oddly enough, I could not change their names, though it sounds so simple, just to go through the book with a pen and put new names in and cross out the old ones. As soon as I tried to change a name, there was a sort of revolt among the people in the book and nothing would go right. So there could be no possible pretending that the people in the book were not the people they actually were. There is a clause about libel in agreements between authors and publishers, and when I read it carefully I did not like the look of it. Besides that, the older Walkers were among my best friends, and I began to wonder what would happen if they did not like their portraits, and still worse, if Captain John and Mate Susan, and Able Seaman Titty and the Boy Roger did not like theirs. And besides that there were the Amazons to think of, too.




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