Last night we blocked a particularly challenging set of pages where we join Franklin and Rachel as they travel from Yorkshire to London, meet Sergeant Cuff and Mister Bruff there, rush off to the bank to trace the Moonstone to a sailor, who we follow through various alleyways and into the inn known as The Wheel of Fortune. We continue with Cuff telling us the backstory of Mister Godfrey Ablewhite, including for us information learned by Septimus Lucker and related to Cuff by way of interrogation.
It's parts like these that tend to blow my mind. Character A relates to the audience the private experience of character B, as learned from character C in a private interview. B and C had an interaction where B told C about this event. C told A about it. And now A is talking to us. A is therefore relating some of character C's point of view as well as his own and the speculation over the actions of B is tainted by B's telling, C's motives and A's opinion of the whole thing. Ka-POW!*
*the sound of my brain exploding
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