Yes, I love this aspect of the book. I vividly remember reading Autumn Term the first time and chuckling over Captain Marlow's comment ("one good lady bursts into paeans of joy and says that Nicola 'mimes with enthusiasm.' Lawrie, on the other hand, 'mimes convincingly.' I wonder what the subtle difference is?"). And then when Lawrie's acting talent is fully revealed later in the book, I recalled that moment and realized that AF was giving us clues all along. I think it was one of the first times I really understood how a writer can lay clues for the reader to pick up and how part of the joy of reading involves piecing together these clues.
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Date: 2014-06-07 06:39 pm (UTC)