If you have the notes, I think it would be great to include references to the actual chapter where you can find the info - would be nice to be able to refer back to.
Okay, I think this just about covers it. I hope. Unless you or anyone else has something to add and/or correct.
Chapter 41 and 42 threw me off a bit. Maurice receives a letter from Alec just before going to (what I assume is) his final session with Mr Lasker Jones. It asks him to come to the boathouse "tomorrow night" or the night after. Then Maurice leaves the doctor's office and goes home where he finds a second letter from Alec which is a bit threatening and asks to meet up with Maurice in London on Tuesday
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Wow, this is wonderful. Thank you so much for the work you put into this :) It's definitely useful.
Two things: You could put in blue that Clive's birthday is before May - his birthday is presumably before he has his crisis in May.
For the epilogue: Kitty is in Yorkshire (that's in the text), and incidental info suggests September-October (leaves falling, after the warmth of summer and before the cold according to Forster).
I've given the matter of the letters from Alec some thought. I can't see how it can be put together differently than you have done, since the letter specifically states the 29th of August and we know that is in 10 days' time. Only a few things to mention; I get the impression that Maurice gets the telegram from Alec the same day he leaves Penge after the cricket match. As far as I know, there were several deliveries of post during the day at that time - at least in London. I'm not sure that there would be several deliveries of post a day from the west counties to London though. Guess-work as usual....
BTW, perhaps I should have put in a line break, but my comment about several post deliveries a day was meant generally and in relation to Maurice possibly receiving two letters from Alec the same day - not specific to the telegram.
I'm keeping it as it is because it is possible to have received both letters in the same day, but if that's the case then I feel like there's some reason behind it that we just don't get to see. *sighs* Well, that's what we have fanfiction for.
Yes, we do - what do you thínk about writing something :D ;)
A comment about this: - (July) After the concert, Risley bumps into Maurice and gives him the address of a hypnotist. (32)
It's my impression that while Maurice meets Clause Risley in connection with the concert, it's not until later that he contacts him again to procure the address of the hypnotist.
"He enjoyed the piercing and the tearing and the soothing--the music did not mean more to him than that--and they induced a warm feeling of gratitude towards Miss Tonks. Unfortunately, after the concert he met Risley." I assumed that that meant directly after the concert. Perhaps on the way out or something.
"Shortly before his visit to Penge a new hope dawned, faint and unlovely. It was hypnotism. My Cornwallis, Risley told him, had been hypnotized. A doctor had said, "Come, come, you are no eunuch!" and lo! he had ceased to be one. Maurice procured the doctor's address, but did not suppose anything would come of it: one interview with the science sufficed him, and he had always felt Risley knew too much; his voice when he gave the address was friendly but slightly amused."
It's written in the same chapter as the concert, but separated by Maurice's visit to the library. However, it doesn't say that he met up with Risley a second time. And since Maurice felt that bumping into Risley was "unfortunate," I had assumed that he wouldn't
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My impression was that Risley had told Maurice about Dean Cornwallis at the time of the concert, but that Maurice contacted Rislay later about the name and address of the hypnotist - that that 'new hope dawned' later on and that Maurice would have remembered and then coontacts Risley. I imagine a phone call from Maurice to Risley. Pure speculation though. My take on the character of Risley is that he wouldn't bother too much with someone as staid and un-imaginitive as Maurice unless there'd be a pay-off.
I agree with you that he meets Risley at the time of the concert - from Risley's comments it's quite clear that Risley himself were there to listen to it - and to watch the antics of the bourgeouisie ;)
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Chapter 41 and 42 threw me off a bit. Maurice receives a letter from Alec just before going to (what I assume is) his final session with Mr Lasker Jones. It asks him to come to the boathouse "tomorrow night" or the night after. Then Maurice leaves the doctor's office and goes home where he finds a second letter from Alec which is a bit threatening and asks to meet up with Maurice in London on Tuesday ( ... )
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Two things:
You could put in blue that Clive's birthday is before May - his birthday is presumably before he has his crisis in May.
For the epilogue: Kitty is in Yorkshire (that's in the text), and incidental info suggests September-October (leaves falling, after the warmth of summer and before the cold according to Forster).
I've given the matter of the letters from Alec some thought. I can't see how it can be put together differently than you have done, since the letter specifically states the 29th of August and we know that is in 10 days' time. Only a few things to mention; I get the impression that Maurice gets the telegram from Alec the same day he leaves Penge after the cricket match. As far as I know, there were several deliveries of post during the day at that time - at least in London. I'm not sure that there would be several deliveries of post a day from the west counties to London though. Guess-work as usual....
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Guess-work is fun!
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Yes, isn't it? :)
BTW, perhaps I should have put in a line break, but my comment about several post deliveries a day was meant generally and in relation to Maurice possibly receiving two letters from Alec the same day - not specific to the telegram.
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A comment about this:
- (July) After the concert, Risley bumps into Maurice and gives him the address of a hypnotist. (32)
It's my impression that while Maurice meets Clause Risley in connection with the concert, it's not until later that he contacts him again to procure the address of the hypnotist.
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I assumed that that meant directly after the concert. Perhaps on the way out or something.
"Shortly before his visit to Penge a new hope dawned, faint and unlovely. It was hypnotism. My Cornwallis, Risley told him, had been hypnotized. A doctor had said, "Come, come, you are no eunuch!" and lo! he had ceased to be one. Maurice procured the doctor's address, but did not suppose anything would come of it: one interview with the science sufficed him, and he had always felt Risley knew too much; his voice when he gave the address was friendly but slightly amused."
It's written in the same chapter as the concert, but separated by Maurice's visit to the library. However, it doesn't say that he met up with Risley a second time. And since Maurice felt that bumping into Risley was "unfortunate," I had assumed that he wouldn't ( ... )
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I agree with you that he meets Risley at the time of the concert - from Risley's comments it's quite clear that Risley himself were there to listen to it - and to watch the antics of the bourgeouisie ;)
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