Posted by John Birch on October 04, 2000 at 12:15:27 from gateway1.gsi.gov.uk:
In Reply to: Re: Urinating in the lake…. posted by Colin Turner on October 04, 2000 at 00:58:54:
In reference to Great Bowel Movements in Literature, I recall that some key scenes in at least one of the Harry Potter novels takes place in a haunted girls lavatory.
But beyond that AR is no different to any other writer, for children or adults. I can think of at least one other group of adventurous children who were addicted to "lashings of ginger beer" without any obvious side effects. The Pevensies wandered the length and breadth of Narnia without so much as a toilet break (or come to that a wash. At least the S&As bathe regularly). Was any Agatha Christie denoument ever prefixed by a "er... before you start, Hercule, could I just visit the smallest room?"
The lifejacket question may be a more serious one, though. After all, in S&A Roger can't even swim and the possibilities of drowning were famously discussed. Was the wearing of lifejackets not much of a big thing in the ever-sunny, gung-ho, risk-taking 20s/30s?