Since all the children learn whatever is learned by one of them, why are they all together in the room for the Zellaby lessons? Only one needed to be there and the rest could while away the tine playing chess. Or is it possible to play chess with, in effect, yourself?
shareI kind of like how they always travel together. There were never any packs of creepy kids when I was in school. It certainly would've been fascinating if there were, though.
Death lives in the Vault of Horror!
The novel says it's a mystery, but somehow They enjoy, or find more effective, group presence during classroom sessions.
shareBut why, in one scene (when Zellaby's bro-in-law enters their house after they cause a villager to immolate himself) are two of them playing chess, which doesn't make sense since they have one collective mind?
shareIf they are playing chess against each other then they must have individual minds as well as a group mind.
Which is a theory I have anyway.
I have now read the book, which acknowledges that since the children all learn what one learns, it isn't necessary for more than one (for each sex)to be present for a lecture. However, all the children get some pleasure from hearing him and watching the films he shows, which is why he is able, at the end, to blow them all up.
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