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Contents 1 Discussion 1.1 No-time travel 1.2 Article needs cleanup for cites and objectivity 1.3 Problematic section

[edit] Discussion

[edit] No-time travel

magical trips that take no time at all in our world (though the latter trope occurs often in fantasy fiction, especially for children).

I am interested in knowing the basis of the judgment in the final parenthetical comment; to the best of my knowledge the motif is not particularly common (I cannot immediately think of any examples other than Nesbit and Lewis) and the salient point here would be whether it was common, or appeared in notable stories other than The Story of the Amulet prior to 1950; since later examples may very well be based upon The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. RandomCritic 07:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article needs cleanup for cites and objectivity

Article includes many examples of uncited statements, speculations, and writer's opinions. Let's clean these up as necessary, please. -- Writtenonsand 23:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problematic section

"Perhaps the most intriguing chapter of the novel describes the children's visit to the future ... this chapter in The Story of the Amulet is the least plausible in the narrative: whereas all the other adventures in this novel contain scrupulously detailed accounts of past civilisations, the children's trip into the future represents Nesbit's wishful thinking for a Utopia based on her own desires for socialist reform. Among Nesbit's unlikely predictions: in the future, trousers will be obsolete and men will wear kilts!"

1) The chapter featuring Atlantis would presumably equally be "wishful thinking" on Nesbit's part.

2) Wikipedia is not a crystal ball WP:NOT#CBALL. Characterizing the idea that in the future "trousers will be obsolete and men will wear kilts" as an "unlikely prediction" is simply the writer's opinion. (I can remember encountering in my own lifetime the statement that men in modern cultures ever wearing pierced jewelry was too ridiculous to consider.)

-- Writtenonsand 00:10, 14 November 2006 (UTC)