I've yet to see a stick transmission in a Range Rover. Unless it's really old or possibly a cheap version (I found like two on google, but they're about a decade old), but even then. If he's got something as fancy as that, it's an automatic transmission. So all that description for a car that doesn't exist.
The other thing google found is that all passenger cars in the US (And I'd assume that it'd be done in other countries) require an emergency trunk release specifically for that very reason. However, this became law in 2002, and the book was written about or before that time. So I'll let this one slide.
Oh, and Iambic Pentameter probably is another mistake. Da Vinci was 1452-1519. It wasn't until 1585 that Shakespeare acted, let alone 1590 when he was known as a writer. True, this pattern existed in the 1300s so it's possible, but unlikely. But apparently Quantitative Metre, not the Accentual-Syllabic Verse Iambic belongs to, that was big in ancient Greece and Rome. So no Iambs for Davinci.
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Date: 2007-10-12 08:58 am (UTC)I've yet to see a stick transmission in a Range Rover. Unless it's really old or possibly a cheap version (I found like two on google, but they're about a decade old), but even then. If he's got something as fancy as that, it's an automatic transmission. So all that description for a car that doesn't exist.
The other thing google found is that all passenger cars in the US (And I'd assume that it'd be done in other countries) require an emergency trunk release specifically for that very reason. However, this became law in 2002, and the book was written about or before that time. So I'll let this one slide.
Oh, and Iambic Pentameter probably is another mistake. Da Vinci was 1452-1519. It wasn't until 1585 that Shakespeare acted, let alone 1590 when he was known as a writer. True, this pattern existed in the 1300s so it's possible, but unlikely. But apparently Quantitative Metre, not the Accentual-Syllabic Verse Iambic belongs to, that was big in ancient Greece and Rome. So no Iambs for Davinci.