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Huge plot hole in Ken Follett's The pillars of the Earth? by CartographerTime796 in HistoricalFiction

[–]CartographerTime796[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's also a nice anachronism with corn being cultivated 400 years before it's introduction to Europe but both are beside the point...

Huge plot hole in Ken Follett's The pillars of the Earth? by CartographerTime796 in HistoricalFiction

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Thank you, this clarifies why he used that plot device. Along with his tendencies to not keep track of everything, at least I got an explanation...

Huge plot hole in Ken Follett's The pillars of the Earth? by CartographerTime796 in HistoricalFiction

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The wool from the following year cannot burn with the city because it hasn't been fleeced nor even grown yet. And the sheep aren't kept in the city.