I've just started Reading it and I noticed on page 39 Nannie slagg takes baby Titus in to see Gertrude, but then about 20 pages later Prunesqualler is telling Nannie that Titus has just been born because she didn't know. I've re read it wondering if it was a flashback but I can't find any explanation!
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I've just started re-reading the books, and I can to the same conclusion. It's very strange, some parts really don't seem like they were properly proof-read. I also noticed during the first part of the christening, Clarice and Cora are harassing Fuchsia, and he seems to lose track of which sister is talking when! It's like Cora starts talking, and then Cora interrupts!
shareIf you read that chapter carefully, he's not telling her Titus has been born - he tells her a baby is about to be born:
Some time today, if I am not mistaken ... I shall be delivering a brand new Groan.
I noticed the same thing but came to the conclusion that, like in movies sometimes, that part of the story was not chronological.
But since it was written in the mid-forties, way ahead of it's time for such non chronoligical narration, I wonder if it wasn't just a mistake.
Could be, after all the third book of the trilogy is filled with a lot of mistakes to the point of becoming unreadable.
in the mid-forties, way ahead of it's time for such non chronoligical narration
...While still reading Titus Groan at the moment I also notice that we very often have to deduct ourselves that someone is talking as the quotes are not always totally clear...
shareI'm sure Prunesqauller's first name changes, from Bernard to Alfred.
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