Comments on: Antarctic Research Blog #66 - Victim of the Aurora http://www.juhanapettersson.com/2008/05/antarctic-research-blog-66-victim-of-the-aurora/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:04:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: VanDee http://www.juhanapettersson.com/2008/05/antarctic-research-blog-66-victim-of-the-aurora/#comment-7449 VanDee Mon, 10 May 2010 20:17:50 +0000 http://www.juhanapettersson.com/?p=333#comment-7449 <i>The big thing I wasn’t sure I understood was what the book is about.</i> Oh I know just what you mean! I've been back to it more than once, trying to "get it", and if there is a big overarching message to it, it still eludes me. Maybe one day I'll get it? It remains, however, an inventively warped "alternative-universe" version of the Scott Expedition, and the character of Forbes-Chalmers lifts it from mere murder-mystery into something more profound. The big thing I wasn’t sure I understood was what the book is about.

Oh I know just what you mean! I’ve been back to it more than once, trying to “get it”, and if there is a big overarching message to it, it still eludes me. Maybe one day I’ll get it? It remains, however, an inventively warped “alternative-universe” version of the Scott Expedition, and the character of Forbes-Chalmers lifts it from mere murder-mystery into something more profound.

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