Date: 2024-11-19 10:38 pm (UTC)
igenlode: The pirate sloop 'Horizon' from "Treasures of the Indies" (Default)
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Thank you -- this post was basically a compilation of my half of a lot of PM exchanges I'd had with people who reviewed this story on FFNet, albeit edited a little to avoid repetition and enable the replies to stand on their own. Which is why it's a little random and/or disjointed in places... but there was a lot of good analysis in there, and I didn't want to waste it.
I do have similar sets of saved meta snippets from review replies on other fics that I managed to extract from my now-inaccessible FFNet inbox, but never got round to compiling them, as it's laborious work and there didn't exactly seem to be any demand for the exercise! But mainly because it is laborious work and it always felt 'too difficult' to even start :-(

Leroux did put a lot of research into his use of the Opera House (apparently scholars have traced individual phrases of description directly back to the reference work he was using), whilst I don't imagine Bram Stoker put a lot of specific attention into his rather generic settings. Except Whitby, perhaps.
Of course Leroux has Perros-Guirec, as well -- which I gather he did know, but knew it in the latter-day character of a holiday resort, like Brighton, rather than the backward little Breton town amid the desolate moors!

Erik would probably have regarded Christine as 'married to her art' (in his character of guardian angel) rather than as an old maid ;-) But no, I can't see him tolerating *anyone* as a romantic interest; his objection to Raoul is not so much as to *who* he is, although I imagine there is a certain element of that ('the whole Vicomte thing', as Christine puts it in Shall We Dance?; the idea of the dissolute nobility) as to the fact that Christine's attention is straying in the first place away from the realm of the Voice, and areas that Erik can control.
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