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Conflicted twin-ishness?
In Falconer's Lure, Lawrie gets upset when Nicola cuts her hair as they no longer look alike, but in End of Term she's upset at having to walk in the choir procession just because she looks like Nick. I don't have my books anywhere nearby (sob!) so I can't trace this in any of the other books, but I'm wondering which is more important for her - looking like Nick or not. Lawrie is such an individual - there's no one like her - and SHE certainly thinks she's special, unique, destined for greatness, etc. - so her huge upset over the hair making them different seems a bit strange. In fact, you'd think she would be the one to cut her hair first. Thoughts, insights?
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I should think that Mrs Marlow spends most of Falconer's Lure preoccupied with organising funerals (and probably with the personnel in charge of the secret airfield ringing her up to suggest she put died quietly at home in the obituary just in case) and propping up her husband - stiff upper lip's all very well, but losing Jon, considering giving up the Service and dealing with the financial side (this last as so vividly described by Rowan) must have taken something of a toll on the Captain.
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(Anonymous) 2006-05-01 11:38 am (UTC)(link)Another query - (I'mn at work and don't have my books) - when Ginty was trapped in ther cellar after a bomb, was that at home? If so, was it the family home in Hampstead, since repaired, or was it somewhere else?
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(Anonymous) 2006-05-01 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)something I had been thinking of posting but never quite got round to was a discussion about what the various siblings were like as children. I find the twins different in Autumn Term than pretty much everywhere else, somehow very much younger (Nick jumping out of the train, etc). And I'd be curious about how much all the others changed as they grew up, too. It would be easiest to write a prequel with them all much as they are now - Ann being very good, Rowan still supremely confident, Kay very academic, but I think that would be losing something. Was Rowan as insecure as Nick sometimes is about her capabilities? Was Ann always so at peace with helping everyone, or did she sometimes resent it more as a child? Was Karen ever silly? How did Ginty's bomb shelter experience change her? Was she always pretty, and did she notice as a child, or is some of her shallowness later on a result of that? What was Lawrie like before she realised she was supremely good at acting? (and indeed, was that actually known before the play in Autumn Term? It seemed like it was really sort of discovered then - was Nick always seen as the one who was best at everything before then?) Did Peter hide his fears just as well as a child? (I guess we get some clues in Falconer's Lure, that Patrick at least knew some of them. Come to that, we also hear a little about Nick as a child in that one too, wanting to trail after the boys), and a million other similar questions... So, what do you think all the characters were like as children?? (perhaps this does need its own topic, after all).
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Anyway, I think it would get more exposure if it had its own topic - I'm not sure how many people check back to see whether old threads on
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I'm just about to re-post my first on this subject as a separate thread.
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(Anonymous) 2006-05-01 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
If you're usually logged in from the same computer, there's a 'Remember me' option on the login screen that actually does automatically log you back in the next time you visit the site (as opposed to the one on eBay, which doesn't - grr). No help if you're using a lot of different terminals, though. :(
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