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daegaer

Yuletide Letter

Oct 08, 2016 20:45

( Dear Yuletide Writer )

yuletide

Comments 6

slemslempike October 8 2016, 22:19:33 UTC

I have only just started listening to Hut 33 and I'm loving it very much indeed.

daegaer October 8 2016, 23:28:20 UTC

It really is one of the funniest things I've ever come across! Have you got to the football match against the Italian POWs yet? Minka has a mean line in motivational speeches . . .

derien October 14 2016, 16:40:13 UTC

I thought I had read "When William Came", but then the things you were saying about it didn't sound familiar. And then when I was glancing through my Nook, hoping desperately for something I could sink my teeth into, there it was. And tooth-sinking commenced, with the result that I couldn't really cook myself breakfast. I had granola because I needed to keep reading at that moment. :)

daegaer October 15 2016, 15:55:26 UTC

It's rather different than Saki's other stuff in a lot of ways, but really clever! I suspect this won't be the year I get fic for it, though - it's very much unknown. Mind you, I found another person has requested Lithuanian historical RPF as well as me, so perhaps the age of miracles is not past!

derien October 18 2016, 20:58:55 UTC

I'm wondering if my Project Gutenberg copy has a scanning flaw. Murray's wife's name is consistently rendered as "Cicely" rather than "Cecily". There IS an awful lot left unanswered in "When William Came." Why exactly did NO scouts turn up? Most people seemed to think at least some would, after all they'd been given. Did some firebrand of a speaker get to all the lesser scout masters or parents?

daegaer October 19 2016, 07:34:13 UTC

I think the scouts are meant to have more innate patriotism and bravery than the older generations who have either all fled and set up the (seemingly ineffectual) empire-in-Exile court in India, or have kept calm and carried on - as the next generation's slogan would actually turn out to be. Their youth - and inexperience, let's be real - allows them to mount a protest, when the more "sensible" characters would and do counsel playing nice with Imperial Germany. It's exactly the same issue as when all the lower upper-class characters of the book are quietly knuckling under, by sheer force of habit due to seeing the German influence for so long and at most talk about doing something. It's a working class character (the jockey) who actually gets disgusted with them and goes off to join the resistance.