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Peter insists that in his letter to the enemy, abominable be spelled with an H (abhominable), referencing Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost (Act V, Scene 1), the character Holofernes mocks Don Armado for mistakenly adding an "h" to "abominable," reflecting a popular Elizabethan-era folk etymology that wrongly linked the word to ab homine
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Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

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Also! Peter and Susan can't go back because they're too old, but what about Victorian cabbie Frank and his wife, the first king and queen of Narnia?? Also why are Aslan's rules so arbitrary?? I think Susan just pissed him off.
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"I’m pretty sure he means you to get back some day. But not Su and me. He says we’re getting too old.”

So they're allowed to grow up and be adults in Narnia but not in the real world...
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"And there they did as pirates would: killed the natives and took the native women for wives, and made palm wine, and drank and were drunk, and lay in the shade of the palm trees, and woke up and quarreled, and sometimes killed one another."

So they were British
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I'm glad his old nurse hadn't had her head chopped off
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A lot of anti-mouse discrimination
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“It is your right,” said Peter. “And you shall be one of the marshals. But you must remember not to suck your paws.”

“Of course not,” said the Bear in a very shocked voice.

“Why, you’re doing it this minute!” bellowed Trumpkin.

Hilarious
14 hours, 13 min ago
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Aslan breathes greatness into people
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Is Prince Caspian going to turn into a werewolf now that he's been bitten?
14 hours, 34 min ago
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"He turned and found himself face to face with the Badger. Peter leaned forward, put his arms round the beast and kissed the furry head: it wasn’t a girlish thing for him to do, because he was the High King."

No homo
Jul 10, 2026 02:49AM
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Also Caspian seems to have grown a lot in a short time, being king must have gone to his head
Jul 10, 2026 02:44AM
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)


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