[ilds] Thursday Next

[william godshalk]

Beatrice,

Do you know who Thursday Next is? Only in the mind of Thursday and 
her elk could there be a literary theft here.

There is connection between the two hydroplanes -- in the real world. 
But in the world of books -- which is a world of imagination -- I can 
imagine that the two hydroplanes are connected, that Durrell has 
appropriated Gatsby's hydroplane. I was playing off of Chris 
Bachelder's forthcoming short story on Gatsby's disappearing 
hydroplane. You see the world of books really does transcend the 
world we live in.

Bill

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