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trennels2007-09-19 10:15 pm
alliekiwi.livejournal.com) wrote in trennels2007-09-19 10:15 pm
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Patrick's future
I've started re-reading Falconer's Lure and came across the following snippet:
~*~*~
Patrick said suddenly, "Oh dear. I do wish it was six years from now."
"Six years?" said Nicola, who sometimes wished it was this time next week, but had never looked that far ahead.
"Yes. Well. In six years, I'll have finished school, I'll have done National Service, and if Dad's still M.P. I can come back here and look after things. And then Jon and I can keep hawkes properly.
pg 52/53 GGB edition
~*~*~
That made me wonder about how AF changed things to suit the times, yet retained some things that were already 'canon' despite them being 'out of time'.
For example, when the red uniforms came back in, the book they were mentioned in was written *past* the time rationing finished in the early 1950s in Real Life? That was Falconer's Lure as well, but haven't reached that bit in the book, yet. I know the book is set in 1948, and clothes rationing ended in 1949...but the book was written/published in 1955.
What I'm leading up to here is... will Patrick do his National Service, despite that going out before potential later books would have been written, and presumably set? Especially since it had already been mentioned that he was going to do it? Or would AF have just ignored that?
~*~*~
Patrick said suddenly, "Oh dear. I do wish it was six years from now."
"Six years?" said Nicola, who sometimes wished it was this time next week, but had never looked that far ahead.
"Yes. Well. In six years, I'll have finished school, I'll have done National Service, and if Dad's still M.P. I can come back here and look after things. And then Jon and I can keep hawkes properly.
pg 52/53 GGB edition
~*~*~
That made me wonder about how AF changed things to suit the times, yet retained some things that were already 'canon' despite them being 'out of time'.
For example, when the red uniforms came back in, the book they were mentioned in was written *past* the time rationing finished in the early 1950s in Real Life? That was Falconer's Lure as well, but haven't reached that bit in the book, yet. I know the book is set in 1948, and clothes rationing ended in 1949...but the book was written/published in 1955.
What I'm leading up to here is... will Patrick do his National Service, despite that going out before potential later books would have been written, and presumably set? Especially since it had already been mentioned that he was going to do it? Or would AF have just ignored that?