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#22 · Posted: 17 Aug 2005 10:03
first of all, hats off to the great site. secondly, i´m sorry if this has been discussed before, but i didn´t find anything similar with "search"-option and since lot´s of people on this and some other threads i´ve seen seem to be unsure, i´ll have to say the following:
are you absolutely sure that tintin lives in moulinsart/marlinspike? unless finnish translations are completely wrong (which i very much doubt), there´s plenty of evidence to support what jock123 suggested earlier in this thread: that tintin lives in rue de labrador even after "le tresor de rackham le rouge" and only visits moulinsart every now and then:
1. in seven crystal balls, page 2: tintin first rings the doorbell and then asks nestor if captain is home, surely he´d use his keys if he lived there? and on the next page captain asks tintin why he came to moulinsart. and also on page 17, when walking out of the theatre haddock says to tintin: "i´ll drop you home and then go back to moulinsart." also on the same page tintin opens the door to the dupon(d)t´s and that´s clearly a flat, not moulinsart.
2. in the land of the black gold dupon(d)ts visit tintin (p. 3) and again it´s flat (which very much looks like rue de labrador, compared to la secret de la licorne, p. 35)
3. in destination moon (p. 1) nestor welcomes haddock back to moulinsart, and also says hello to tintin (don´t know how to explain this in english but every time nestor speaks to tintin he seems to address tintin as a visitor, not a habitant of moulinsart, whereas haddock is always "sir" or "master")
4.l´affaire tournesol doesn´t seem to give any evidence of tintin´s address, except for the already mentioned nestor´s way of always addressing haddock as a owner of the house, and never speaking to tintin in such a way. also on the page 14 when t&h are going to tournesol´s laboratory t asks h for the key.
5. coke en stock is the first book that indicates tintin is actually living in moulinsart. first of all there´s no sign of his own flat, and abdullah comes to live in moulinsart, the letter from his father is addressed to tintin and in the letter the emir asks tintin for hospitality (although this could be because the emir doesn´t think that an average flat is good enough for his son)
6. tintin au tibet seems to give the strongest evidence that tintin indeed lives in rue de labrador and sometimes visits moulinsart (maybe for relatively long periods of time): on page 3 haddock says to tintin: "look at the envelope. it´s been traveling for long. it came from your home to moulinsart, from where nestor has send it here" (ie. the hotel in swizerland).
7. castafiore emeralds seems to indicate that tintin actually lives in moulinsart, but i think he´s again only visiting. no strong evidence, but on page 58 tintin asks haddock if there´s any woodcutter (or whatever the word is in english) living in the village. tintin seems like a smart guy who usually remembers faces and names (except endaddine akass´s voice but that´s a different story), and to me it´d seem odd that tintin wouldn´t know the villagers if he was living there himself.
8. maybe around the time of castafiore emeralds and vol 714 tintin moved permanently to moulinsart. vol 714 doesn´t give a hint about tintin´s address, but picaros seems to be the first book that clearly indicates that tintin is permanently living in moulinsart. on page 21 haddock says to tournesol (naturally spicing with few expletives): "tintin? he made a wise decision by staying in moulinsart". and again on page 62 haddock says: "i´ll be very happy when we´re (all) back in moulinsart" to what tintin replies: "me too, captain"
9. what i can remember of the text in l´alph-art (official version) tintin seems to be permanent resident of moulinsart, although i don´t know for sure because it hasn´t been translated into finnish and i can´t read the french version myself.
conclusion: i think that tintin definitely has his rue de labrador flat until the tintin au tibet and probably until the castafiore emeralds, but from the destination moon onwards he´s partly living in the city, partly in moulinsart, although there´s no evidence of rue de labrador flat after the tintin au tibet.
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