Vdt
Ok, so I'm currently reading VDT, and noticed a few interesting things. Most fall into the category of 'mistakes and blunders', and some are questions rather than observations, but rather than start a new thread, I thought this one was a suitable place.
The first few are in illustrations.
1) In ch 2, in the picture in the cabin, next to Drinian there is a globe on the table.
2) In ch 4, in the picture of the procession, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace are in the procession, just behind Caspian, but this was at the time that they were still slaves of Pug.
3) Also in ch 4, the illustration shows Caspian and Drinian overturning Gumpas' table, while the text says it was Bern and Drinian who did this.
Now some questions about flat-earth physics.
4) It is noted that the sun gets larger as they move Eastwards. But surely, assuming it is getting larger because it is closer and not due to some optical illusion, it should only be larger in the mornings, and correspondingly smaller in the evenings.
5) If the water is puring off the edge of the earth, how is is replenished? (Otherwise the sea level would drop.) Also, why is the current only in one narrow channel, and why does it only begin close to the edge of the earth?
6) It is noted that islands disapper below the horizon, but this implies a round earth. On a flat one, you should be able to see, in principle, all the way to the end, although the distant objects would be very small and eventually lost in haze, probably. (On the same theme, why is Aslan's country not visible from further West, at least in the afternoons? - in the morning it is obscured by the sun which rises in front of it.)
And finally, some questions about people's actions.
7) How did Restimar end up being left on an island that was only 20 acres in size? I can't imagine him deciding that it was a good place to be abandoned, probably never to see another ship again. But if he died before the others had left the island, why did they leave his armour behind, which would presumably have been pretty obvious to them after a search, even if they weren't with him when he dived.
8) If Reepicheep and the others were so concerned for Lucy's safety on the island with the voices, why didn't they go up with her to the Magician's Book. No-one said she had to go alone; in fact, the Dufflepuds explicitly said that there had been several of them when they went before.
9) If the Duffers' weapons were invisible when they held them but became visible when they left their body, why is the same not true of the plates and dishes that they served at dinner, which could be seen jumping around the room?
10) How did Rhoop come to learn that the Dark Island was a land where dreams come true? (He says that it was that kind of talk that brought him there.) And, if the others knew that, why did they not go with him? If they thought it was a trick or a lie, they presumably told him so, so why did Rhoop disagree strongly enough that he was willing to go off on his own?
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