Raoul and Erik's roles in effect exchanged

I know that I have written at length and with some analysis about my old theory that the issue with "Love Never Dies" was that Lloyd Webber had accidentally managed to swap over the functions of Raoul and the Phantom from those seen in POTO -- but I can't actually *find* any of those discussions in order to archive them, save for my very brief original mention of it as "the insight that didn't make it into the story" of "The Choices of Raoul"...

I think the topic must always have come up as part of *replies* on my part to other people, which means that the relevant discussions are either trapped in my FFnet PM box (might be worth trying to check all the outgoing messages from the relevant period, circa April 2013-2014, the next time I travel in to the library), in my likewise inaccessible Dreamwidth message outbox, or else scattered all over LiveJournal/Dreamwidth in assorted journals :-(

The closest thing I have managed to track down is a comment to a comment in vicomte_de_chagny, on the subject of Why "Love Never Dies" is a tragedy.
( Edit: found :-) )

Second edit (Jan 27th): ( further material from old PM discussions )

Scratchy neck

I finally (after sleeping for nearly a week in a pair of pyjamas with a three-inch rent across the shoulder that are clearly beyond repair -- another one bites the dust) got round to solving the problem of the scratchy pyjamas by applying a long rhomboid of bias tape over the edge of the collar seam. I'm not sure how well (with hindsight) the hand-tacked stitches will survive going through the washing machine, but for the moment it seems to have done the job.

( Drying a sheet )

I seem to have acquired a new fan on fanfiction.net :-)
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