I wouldn't call that cold
Feb. 26th, 2015 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inevitableentresolI'm reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. I'm only a few chapters in, but so far it's a really good book.
Then I came to a part where an escape artist has to make an escape in 23 degrees Celsius water. He acts like that's a really big deal. The character specifically mentions that he tried to use the tap water at home to practice on, but it was nowhere near that cold.
He lives in Europe. And it's April.
Just this one tiny detail is throwing me so hard that I had to stop reading. Where I live in Europe, where it hardly even ever snows, tap water is usually 5-10 degrees Celsius at that time of year. It doesn't reach near 23 degrees unless we have a crazy heat wave at the end of a long hot summer.
Seriously. What parallel universe does this guy live in where 23 degree Celsius water could be called cold?
And why has this one tiny thing thrown me right out of the story?
Then I came to a part where an escape artist has to make an escape in 23 degrees Celsius water. He acts like that's a really big deal. The character specifically mentions that he tried to use the tap water at home to practice on, but it was nowhere near that cold.
He lives in Europe. And it's April.
Just this one tiny detail is throwing me so hard that I had to stop reading. Where I live in Europe, where it hardly even ever snows, tap water is usually 5-10 degrees Celsius at that time of year. It doesn't reach near 23 degrees unless we have a crazy heat wave at the end of a long hot summer.
Seriously. What parallel universe does this guy live in where 23 degree Celsius water could be called cold?
And why has this one tiny thing thrown me right out of the story?
