Hmm. But were there a lot of Spanish pirates in Southeast Asia from 1750 to 1800? I'd think people preying on the Spanish might be more common... unless they were Spanish pirates preying on the Dutch and the English...?
Well, in any case it's fairly obvious that piracy in the Pacific was not Lewis's area of expertise. *sigh*
As for the timeline business! I tend to think that, since all worlds are nominally connected through the pools in the Wood, their timelines have just enough connection that if Person A leaves Universe 1 on Monday and Person B leaves Universe 1 on Friday, Person B cannot arrive in Universe 2 before Person A, though the exact interval between their arrivals is completely arbitrary. This only holds for direct journeys, of course. Once you interpose one or more intermediate worlds, everything except the basic direction of time goes out the window.
You are correct that this is not strictly required by canon, but if it's not required, we get into time travel territory (without the sort of divine fucking-about Aslan does to de-age the Pevensies at the end of LWW), and that is a can of worms I would prefer to leave closed. I remain convinced that even the supposed 'instantaneous' nature of trips to Narnia is an illusion; they do, in fact, have measurable duration. It's just that the duration is only a second or two.
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Date: 2016-07-05 02:25 pm (UTC)Well, in any case it's fairly obvious that piracy in the Pacific was not Lewis's area of expertise. *sigh*
As for the timeline business! I tend to think that, since all worlds are nominally connected through the pools in the Wood, their timelines have just enough connection that if Person A leaves Universe 1 on Monday and Person B leaves Universe 1 on Friday, Person B cannot arrive in Universe 2 before Person A, though the exact interval between their arrivals is completely arbitrary. This only holds for direct journeys, of course. Once you interpose one or more intermediate worlds, everything except the basic direction of time goes out the window.
You are correct that this is not strictly required by canon, but if it's not required, we get into time travel territory (without the sort of divine fucking-about Aslan does to de-age the Pevensies at the end of LWW), and that is a can of worms I would prefer to leave closed. I remain convinced that even the supposed 'instantaneous' nature of trips to Narnia is an illusion; they do, in fact, have measurable duration. It's just that the duration is only a second or two.