Posted: June 16, 1997 at 13:34:07: by hank greely
: I really enjoyed and agree with most of Hank's
: comments about Witch World but I have a little
: trouble with one issue that has bothered me for
: quite a while. Where is Simon when he meets Jorge
: Petronius? Hank's Simon is in Cornwall but the
: description of the scene sounds like some grubby
: semi-industrial town. It has a railway station,
: neon lights, and "towering buildings...about a
: late 17th farmhouse in the heart of a 20th century
: city". None of those chasing Simon have Cornish
: names (i.e. Sammy, Hanson, Lampson, Kotchev) but
: at the farmhouse in the back are the menhirs of
: The Siege Perilous. Simon when questioned about
: his background knows nothing about Cornwall except
: that his grandparents were from there. Then
: Petronius explains about the Cornish background
: that makes Simon special but says nothing to
: indicate that he and Simon are presently in
: Cornwall. There is a real mystery that Norton
: never cleared up about this opening. I went back and looked at the book again and have to agree with you. In fact, I don't know that there are any "grimy industrial cities" in Cornwall. I think I just jumped to the conclusion, based on the other Cornish references, that this was in Cornwall. I may also have been influenced by the very odd short story, Tall Dames Walking, in which Jorge Petronius (great name) is definitely in Cornwall.
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