Hah. What a great Polly Plummer, and a riveting Digory. I do hope that, at the end, they are going off to bed together. I so much appreciate that these two are still the closest of friends, and wise enough not to marry each other when neither really wants to be married. If Polly would leave everything to go off with him, though, Stitchnipped is right: this is a very romantic story, although not 'shippy' at all. Maybe it's romantic because there's so much love written into it.
And it doesn't seem weak or wrong of Digory to to have this overarching desire to find goodness again in his life - even if it's in another world. You've given us a very keen portrait of a WW I veteran; the first war of technology, some historians call it, where technological advances like the machine gun were used against pre-industrial defenses. The two paragraphs after Digory returns to the enchanted food, that start with him confessing to Polly that he's tired, are so rich, so representative of the spirit of the age talking to the spirit of life itself. Very, very nicely written.
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Date: 2011-08-30 04:44 pm (UTC)And it doesn't seem weak or wrong of Digory to to have this overarching desire to find goodness again in his life - even if it's in another world. You've given us a very keen portrait of a WW I veteran; the first war of technology, some historians call it, where technological advances like the machine gun were used against pre-industrial defenses. The two paragraphs after Digory returns to the enchanted food, that start with him confessing to Polly that he's tired, are so rich, so representative of the spirit of the age talking to the spirit of life itself. Very, very nicely written.