The Eyre Affair, once the tyre hits the kerb (if you'll excuse the overextension), really boils. It proved very difficult to keep aloof from it during the kidnapping of Thursday's Uncle Mycroft, her shoot-out in Archer's studio, and, particularly, her meeting with Landen wherein old wounds burst open. But, I'm still left wondering about the world it all happens in.
On page 145, Bowden Cable tells Thursday about a posting he'd applied for at "the equivalent of a LiteraTec office in Ohio." This suggests that, although literature might not be an internationally valued commodity, other media are so in other parts of the world. Being in Ohio, my guess is that the medium in question is film, or television, but that's just a guess. As it's described, the posting could really just be a library or archive position, the major concern of which being the rooting out of forgeries.
Likewise, on page 183, a reference to a Swindon troupe of audience members-cum-actors going to Sauvignon to repay a French troupe for their performance in Swindon could be taken to mean that Shakespeare is highly valued in France as well as England. But, again, that value could just be the sort of value that many people in the real world ascribe to the Bard and his works.
The mystery of Thursday Next's world persists.
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