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Ignore the idea of metafiction, and you get plot holes


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Posted by Magnus Smith on June 25, 2025 at 07:53:17 user Magnus.

This is just for fun, but it gave another Ransome fan and me a lot of conversation the other day.

Imagine you're young enough to have not realised how PD and ML are metafiction... but you're smart enough to compare all the stories, and identify plot holes. This brings up some silly but fun things, and all requires exercising that part of the brain which stores S&A lore!

I can recall first reading PD and ML, and even with Mr Duck's name being mentioned within Swallowdale, I still hasn't really twigged. I'm not sure my ability to spot plot holes came till adulthood though.

Here's your starter ideas...

Why was Susan so affected by seasickness in WDMTGTS? Surely she could recall the wonderful cure Bill taught her with the bacon fat?

Why would Commander Walker hire 'Wizard' in SW when the Jacksons were clearly OK with 'Swallow' being transported from the lakes to Falmouth, and going all the way to the Caribees in PD?




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