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A Tangled Tale · Chapter
§2: Change of Day explained
The narrator postpones a geographical problem indefinitely, citing a lack of statistics and personal confusion, and questions their own ability to judge others when uncertain of their own standing.
What happens
The narrator postpones a geographical problem indefinitely, citing a lack of statistics and personal confusion, and questions their own ability to judge others when uncertain of their own standing.
Key passages
“I must postpone, sine die , the geographical problem—partly because I have not yet received the statistics I am hoping for, and partly because I am myself so entirely puzzled by it; and when an examiner is himself dimly hovering between a second class and a third how is he to decide the position of others?”
The author indefinitely delays the geography problem due to missing data and his own confusion, questioning how someone uncertain of their own rank can judge others.
The narrator expresses uncertainty and postponement.