Gondal in Turmoil by Emily or Anne Brontë (possibly)
Author: possibly Emily and/or Anne Brontë
Publisher: not known
Source book: The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (Thursday Next #3)
Inside BookWorld it’s possible to communicate via footnotes using footnoterphones. And just as we get spam emails and spam texts, there are junk messages sent via footnoterphone.
Thursday gets a scam message from someone claiming to be a Mrs R Jackson. Mrs Jackson’s husband, Reginald, was the rebel leader in Gondal in Turmoil, and just before he was assassinated he gave his wife $12million.
We know that Gondal is a fictional island in the North Pacific, created by Emily and Anne Brontë. Hence my guess that one of them might have been responsible, or perhaps been thought to have been responsible for Gondal in Turmoil.
Anyhow, Mrs Jackson claims to be a refugee from Gondal with her two children, and she wants to transfer her ill-gotten millions to Thursday’s account in Outland (the real world… or at any rate the world where Thursday was born and brought up).
This all sounds suspiciously as though Mrs Jackson is a Nigerian Prince in disguise. No offence to Nigeria, obviously. But anyone old enough to remember the era of the ubiquitous Nigerian Prince scam emails will know exactly what I mean.
Obviously, because Jasper Fforde is a perfectionist, this whole scam is presented on the page of The Well of Lost Plots as a footnote.
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| Photos by me: Switzerland not Gondal |
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