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posted by [identity profile] anef.livejournal.com at 06:11pm on 09/02/2008
Re bacon, the author is in no way to be relied on as to physical phenomena, which she just makes up blithely. For instance in one book some of the girls as a jolly jape put snails onto a window pane, and they make an appalling squeaking noise. I haven't deliberately repeated the experiment but have several times observed snails on window panes making no noise whatsoever.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 06:16pm on 09/02/2008
> physical phenomena, which she just makes up blithely

[livejournal.com profile] bugshaw tries to work out what Eleanor M Brent-Dyer would have meant by anisotropic brownies. I know what I mean.

Aw! That's so sweet about the snails, but how could she not know that didn't squeak?
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posted by [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com at 10:54pm on 09/02/2008
Oh, goshdarn! Do not tell me these things!

Hee...

(S'okay, I have never really viewed her as reliable, except in her own Chalet world. Where I'm sure Tyrolean snails absolutely do make squeaking noises on glass. The truly terrifying thing is that during the war, Elinor M did actually set up a school of her own. With her mother. I have a dreadful feeling that she would've tried to recreate the whole Chalet thing, and truly believed it would work. It, um, didn't...)
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