bedlamsbard | you ain't been to heaven till you been down here (Reply)

Dude. I just realized I have a totally legitimate reason for making Cair Paravel New Orleans, and it doesn't have anything to do with the Cair Paravel of now (a.k.a. Dust), but the Cair Paravel of Caspian's time. Of course Cair Paravel neighborhoods are going to (originally) be divided up between humans (Telmarines) and nonhumans (Narnians). Of course. Now, three hundred years later that may have changed to more ordinary demarcations of rich and poor, noble and commoner, but when it started out, it would have been Telmarine and Narnian, just like New Orleans was Creole (the French Quarter) and American (the Garden District). (Obviously this did not happen when New Orleans was founded, but it goes back there, you know.)

This realization brought to you by my Natural Diasters professor's use of the phrase "neutral ground" during the field trip on Saturday, and my subsequent googling, which gave me this tidbit of trivia. And it is SO PERFECT that I am borrowing it. (Along, with, like half the other stuff in New Orleans. Going through my Cair Paravel is like trying to pick out all the New Orleans references. Garden District! Drink! Mare's Quarter! Drink!)

(...I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that "Sangria Street in the Mare's Quarter, the most notorious street in Cair Paravel" is pretty friggin' obvious.)