Posted by John Wilson on March 27, 2002 at 11:21:36 from 202.154.130.242:
In Reply to: Re: Day of the Week, Chronology posted by Robert Dilley on March 26, 2002 at 16:45:06:
Well, I didn’t know about the start of Grouse shooting on the “Glorious Twelfth” of August, also having only shot smallbore on a range.
But AR doubtless saw the Grouse shooting as a way of getting Captain Flint and Mary’s woodman Jack to move the camp back to the island - a way of moving the plot along. And a final surprise for the S&A’s, rather than having the final event in the book just a routine camp shifting.
As in PM where I think that the GA’s letter turns up at Beckfoot the day after the telegram is received and replied to - which seems a remarkably fast service for a letter presumably posted the previous day in Harrogate. But having say even a day’s delay would have slowed the story down.
So again AR liked to keep the story moving - though overlooking some details.
PS: I thought Tony Blair wrote “toomorrow”