Comments | talking_piffle: Have His Carcass: Chapters 13-15

colonial_abroad in talking_piffle

Have His Carcass: Chapters 13-15

Sep 28, 2010 23:13

Sorry everyone that I forgot to post this yesterday.

( Chapters 13-15 )

Comments 4

wren_chan September 29 2010, 00:47:35 UTC

Well, in Murder Must Advertise we're told Dean, as a fairly good copy-writer, split a flat in London with his sister on six pounds a week, and in Busman's Honeymoon forty pounds is apparently a fairly good nest egg to start a small business on. So yeah, probably a good bit. These are from two to four years later, but still.

I do adore Bunter as security-blanket. XD SO TRUE.

And 'love making' just meant flirting, really. I'm not sure precisely when it changed.

And commentary is such fun! Thanks for working so hard for us!

wordfiend September 29 2010, 01:09:38 UTC

Love your summary of their conversation in chapter 13. I think Harriet is a bit testy about all the proposing. I believe she compares it to dynamite in the next chapter.
Apparently making love used to mean have an intense and private conversation and could be used in a platonic sense, or in more a "to woo" sense. If that makes sense.
All in all, the comentary was great, but would you mind putting it under a cut?

colonial_abroad September 29 2010, 05:56:43 UTC

I put it under a cut now, sorry about that!

nineveh_uk October 5 2010, 15:36:58 UTC

Somehow I managed to miss this when it was posted. Glad to have caught it now, because I love the Row, and how the day starts so well and goes horribly wrong. Re. Peter putting too much pressure on Harriet, I think that he does. He says that all he wants is common honesty, and yet he refuses to hear what Harriet is saying - that she doesn't want to marry him, and she is consistently saying that, however confused her feelings might be, he just doesn't want to hear it. I think at this point he still hasn't quite understood how badly she's been hurt by Boyes and the trial, and that the damage isn't something that she can get over, but that it is ongoing to her personally (psychologically - he does recognise some non-personal hazard, given that that is why he is there). Harriet seems to me to be emotionally all over the place in HHC - she doesn't know how she feels about Peter, but can't help feeling something, she's upset that she can't get away from the police, that this drags in Peter yet again etc ( ... )