Have His Carcase: Chapters 4-6

[miss_eponine]

I remembered about this last night as I was drifting off to sleep, so I apologize for it being a day late!

Edit: I am terribly embarrassed to realize that my brain read the X's in the Roman numerals in the chapters as V's, and this summary is actually chapters 9, 10 and 11.

So I am adding in summaries of the proper chapters.

Comments

[margdean56]

The Leopard's remark is from one of Kipling's Just So Stories, "How the Leopard Got His Spots." The Leopard's friend the Ethiopian is obligingly giving him dark rosettes on his fur by pressing clusters of fingerprints from his own newly darkened skin on the Leopard's tawny coat. The Leopard tells him not to make them "too vulgar big."

[miss_eponine]

Oh, thanks!

[holdouttrout]

Too much plot, and not enough proposals! *grins*

Seriously, though, first time through, and I found these chapters to be quite frustrating, with all the contradictory and/or unattached evidence.

[shinyopals]

She's just setting up to be as confusing as possible! XD

[miss_eponine]

The first time I read this one, for some reason I was convinced it had something to do with the clock in town being wrong. There's so much stuff that contradicts all the other stuff, and then something else happens that changes everything.

It's definitely a lot of plot, and not nearly enough proposals.

[shinyopals]

I am much amused by Harriet being all "I suppose he's not too bad really" when she sees him in a swimsuit. Are you sure that was measured and calm enough, Harriet? XD

[miss_eponine]

Oh, yes. I love seeing Harriet being sort of delusional when it comes to how she actually feels about Peter.

[nineveh_uk]

Re. H on P in his swimming kit, I find myself wondering whether she really skips from his shoulders to his lower legs, or pauses on the way to admire his bum ;-)

[azdak]

a low, lorn crittur, with all the world contrairy with him

According to the Wimsey Notes, Mrs Gummidge says this in David Copperfield.

[soniag]

But wait! There IS a proposal at the end of chapter 6! In the telegram.

[colonial_abroad]

Telegram proposal is my favourite! It's so off hand- just thrown in with all this plot stuff, it's just so, Peter.