A character "felt raised a league or a fathom into the air". Which? A league is three miles, a fathom is six feet, so a league contains is at least 2,640 fathoms, more if the miles are nautical rather than statute.
Sunday, December 16, 2018
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… 20011: Poet, Meet Pedant.
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ReplyDeleteA novel about memory could perhaps be expected to highlight its inacuracies, to portray the way we reconstruct our past/s.
ReplyDeleteWell, that is certainly true. But the other things mentioned do add up (or down), I think.
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