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Hi Gabi: Thank you so much for your thoughtful response. I missed the changes in time continuum completely, and will have to re-read the story, and your analysis to further understand how it all fits together.
Hi, glad you found my comment helpful. Thank you! It was nice to discuss the story with you! Best regards!gabi
Yeah, I am a few stories beyond this, but it's been nagging me. So ur saying that Nina never left Ernie -- ok good. So ur saying that Purvis came and abducted her? Will also have to reread....
Thank you Gabi, I had not caught those details either.
Thanks Gabi! You saved the day. I was baffled by the ending, I completely missed the time-shift. (Another example of why I don't like plots that have a non-linear chronology.)
In researching the ending I also noticed that the last few sentences were re-written in the 2009 collection as compared to the 2005 New Yorker story. The revised ending is shorter and omits the the Uricon explanation.
from New Yorker (2005):
Just outside the shop was a mail chute. I slipped the envelope into it, there in the wide lower corridor of the Arts Building, with people passing me on their way to classes, on their way to have a smoke and maybe a game of bridge in the Common Room.
Most of them on a course, as I was, of getting to know the ways of their own wickedness.
I kept on learning things. I learned that Uricon, the Roman camp, is now Wroxeter, a town on the Severn River.
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from Too Much Happiness (2009):
Just outside the shop was a mail chute. I slipped the envelope into it, there in the wide lower corridor of the Arts Building, with people passing me on their way to classes, on their way to have a smoke and maybe a game of bridge in the Common Room. On their way to deeds they didn't know they had in them.
I had the same problem with the final of this story. I should pay more attention to details! Thank you, Gabi!
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Hi Gabi: Thank you so much for your thoughtful response. I missed the changes in time continuum completely, and will have to re-read the story, and your analysis to further understand how it all fits together.
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Hi, glad you found my comment helpful. Thank you! It was nice to discuss the story with you! Best regards!gabi
Yeah, I am a few stories beyond this, but it's been nagging me. So ur saying that Nina never left Ernie -- ok good. So ur saying that Purvis came and abducted her? Will also have to reread....
Thank you Gabi, I had not caught those details either.
Thanks Gabi! You saved the day. I was baffled by the ending, I completely missed the time-shift. (Another example of why I don't like plots that have a non-linear chronology.)In researching the ending I also noticed that the last few sentences were re-written in the 2009 collection as compared to the 2005 New Yorker story. The revised ending is shorter and omits the the Uricon explanation.
from New Yorker (2005):
Just outside the shop was a mail chute. I slipped the envelope into it, there in the wide lower corridor of the Arts Building, with people passing me on their way to classes, on their way to have a smoke and maybe a game of bridge in the Common Room.
Most of them on a course, as I was, of getting to know the ways of their own wickedness.
I kept on learning things. I learned that Uricon, the Roman camp, is now Wroxeter, a town on the Severn River.
---
from Too Much Happiness (2009):
Just outside the shop was a mail chute. I slipped the envelope into it, there in the wide lower corridor of the Arts Building, with people passing me on their way to classes, on their way to have a smoke and maybe a game of bridge in the Common Room. On their way to deeds they didn't know they had in them.
I had the same problem with the final of this story. I should pay more attention to details! Thank you, Gabi!
