This morning, I was reading Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell when I came across a paragraph that brought that random character to mind and I realized, just as I had when adding the cumin to the Bolognese sauce, that his addition, as unlikely as it had seemed, would lead the plot ...
Yet there are people who find such inconsistencies unblameworthy. After we pointed out Raymond Keene’sChess Praxiscontradiction (C.N. 1231) on page 282 of the September 1986CHESS, a reply from Mr James Pratt of Basingstoke was printed on page 326 of the November 1986 issue: ‘... Now to...