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bedlamsbardMan, if anyone was wondering how long it was going to take me to get to the point in Dust where I had to diagram stuff out, the answer would be NOW. Dude, this was not a problem when they were all in one place.
ETA: Man, at some point in the near future I have to go back through the entirety of Dust and, like, take notes, because at this point I don't remember what info I did and didn't drop, because there was a lot of foreshadowing in scenes I cut and I don't remember what's actually there. Is Dust 7 the earliest mention of Casmyn Wavewalker and the Black Fleet? (Originally this came up in Dust 5.) And going through it now and just timelining stuff out I'm noticing stuff I put in that I'd forgotten about. (I forgot that they passed a Calormene work-gang on their first day out of Arn Abedin. Smart, Bedlam. Could have used that.)
ETA2: Man, I'm not really sure that accomplished all that much...Susan's horn must have blown around midday, because Eustace in Dust 9 says, just following the sound of it, "He can look out the open window at the bustling riverfront below without flinching away from the light." And at the time when Edmund hears it, he and Vespasian are out practicing tent-pegging but, by the time he reaches the Calormene camp, it's long past nightfall and Edmund says that the tarkaan who took Susan is at least a half-day's ride ahead of them by now. So the Calormene camp is at least a half-day's ride (maybe more) away from Arn Abedin.
...I'm no longer sure what this whole exercise was supposed to accomplish. I think I was trying to figure out when Susan was going to arrive in Cair Paravel and what Peter, Tirian, and Eustace would be doing at the time. (It's a three day ride from Arn Abedin to Cair Paravel.) This would probably work better if I had a better idea of exactly what they're going to be doing in the immediate future.
Okay, Susan's horn is Day 4, Peter gets arrested on Day 5, (Day 1 being the day they leave Arn Abedin, I mean), and Dust 11 starts on...Day 7? (Peter says he was brought into the prison a day and a half earlier.)
Dude. Susan could totally be in Cair Paravel by now. (Actually, she should come in either late on Day 7 or Day 8, depending. Man, I don't know.) Okay! We'll be doing some dancing around the timeline then. Not that we haven't been doing a little of that before, what with parts of Dust 9 taking place before Dust 8. Stop freaking out, Bedlam. It doesn't suit you.
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ETA: Man, at some point in the near future I have to go back through the entirety of Dust and, like, take notes, because at this point I don't remember what info I did and didn't drop, because there was a lot of foreshadowing in scenes I cut and I don't remember what's actually there. Is Dust 7 the earliest mention of Casmyn Wavewalker and the Black Fleet? (Originally this came up in Dust 5.) And going through it now and just timelining stuff out I'm noticing stuff I put in that I'd forgotten about. (I forgot that they passed a Calormene work-gang on their first day out of Arn Abedin. Smart, Bedlam. Could have used that.)
ETA2: Man, I'm not really sure that accomplished all that much...Susan's horn must have blown around midday, because Eustace in Dust 9 says, just following the sound of it, "He can look out the open window at the bustling riverfront below without flinching away from the light." And at the time when Edmund hears it, he and Vespasian are out practicing tent-pegging but, by the time he reaches the Calormene camp, it's long past nightfall and Edmund says that the tarkaan who took Susan is at least a half-day's ride ahead of them by now. So the Calormene camp is at least a half-day's ride (maybe more) away from Arn Abedin.
...I'm no longer sure what this whole exercise was supposed to accomplish. I think I was trying to figure out when Susan was going to arrive in Cair Paravel and what Peter, Tirian, and Eustace would be doing at the time. (It's a three day ride from Arn Abedin to Cair Paravel.) This would probably work better if I had a better idea of exactly what they're going to be doing in the immediate future.
Okay, Susan's horn is Day 4, Peter gets arrested on Day 5, (Day 1 being the day they leave Arn Abedin, I mean), and Dust 11 starts on...Day 7? (Peter says he was brought into the prison a day and a half earlier.)
Dude. Susan could totally be in Cair Paravel by now. (Actually, she should come in either late on Day 7 or Day 8, depending. Man, I don't know.) Okay! We'll be doing some dancing around the timeline then. Not that we haven't been doing a little of that before, what with parts of Dust 9 taking place before Dust 8. Stop freaking out, Bedlam. It doesn't suit you.
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Date: 2009-01-26 09:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-01-26 09:53 pm (UTC)The main question is when the hell did Susan blow her horn? Right now we're looking at mid-afternoon, early evening -- still daylight, because that's what Eustace says in Dust 8, along with "bustling riverfront." And I'm just now getting to Dust 10 and the Edmund POV...
(What's also kind of interesting is that the Cair Paravel chapters use time as a marker and the Arn Abedin chapters use distance as a marker. I find it interesting.)
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Date: 2009-01-27 07:29 pm (UTC)- Makes perfect sense to me.