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Immersion for the doctor

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"ZOE: But that's ridiculous. I mean, there never was such a person as Gulliver. He's a fictional character.
DOCTOR: Of course he is. Don't you understand? This world that we've tumbled into is a world of fiction. Unicorns, minotaur, Gulliver's travels, they're all alive here."

Is this immersion?
 
ZOE: I think this is the place.
DOCTOR: Yes. There's no sign of him. I'm sure he wouldn't have gone off without
(Zoe picks up the jacket.)
DOCTOR: What's that?
ZOE: His jacket.
DOCTOR: Well, he must be around here somewhere.
ZOE: Jamie! Who's that?
DOCTOR: Oh. Oh, my dear sir.
GULLIVER: Your servant, sir.
DOCTOR: You have a knack of turning up unexpectedly.
ZOE: Have you seen Jamie?
GULLIVER: I walked alone, but saw no sign of any inhabitants.
ZOE: Are you absolutely positive?
GULLIVER: I would not impose any falsities upon you. I adhere strictly to truth.
DOCTOR: Of course. This, er, this person who controls this place, the Master?
GULLIVER: The Master, yes.
DOCTOR: Have you seen him?
GULLIVER: Upon occasion he has been pleased to grant me an audience.
DOCTOR: Where might I find him?
GULLIVER: The Master's palace is no ordinary edifice, but a citadel, a walled town at the top of a hill or cliff, which is reckoned the highest in the kingdom.
DOCTOR: Yes, now I think I understand. May I ask, sir, where you come from? Would it not be Nottingham?
GULLIVER: My father had a small estate in Nottingham, sir. I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emmanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I applied myself close to my studies, learning navigation and other parts of the mathematics
DOCTOR: Useful for those who intend to travel
DOCTOR + GULLIVER: As I always believed it would someday or other, my fortune to do.
DOCTOR: Now I know who you are, sir. Your name is Lemuel Gulliver.
GULLIVER: Your servant.
ZOE: Gulliver?
DOCTOR: Yes, yes. Oh, I'm looking forward to a long talk with you one of these days.
GULLIVER: I should like that above all things, but it would not be proper at this juncture to trouble you with the particulars of my adventures.
DOCTOR: Oh, I wouldn't dream of detaining you.
GULLIVER: Having been condemned by nature and fortune to a restless and active life, I must take my leave of you. Farewell.
DOCTOR: Farewell.
(Gulliver leaves.)
ZOE: Why does he talk in such an extraordinary way?
DOCTOR: Well, he can only speak the words that Dean Swift gave him to say.
ZOE: But that's ridiculous. I mean, there never was such a person as Gulliver. He's a fictional character.
DOCTOR: Of course he is. Don't you understand? This world that we've tumbled into is a world of fiction. Unicorns, minotaur, Gulliver's travels, they're all alive here.
ZOE: Then what are we doing here? What do they want with us?
DOCTOR: I'm not sure I understand that yet. Come along, let's find Jamie. You'd better put this on.
(The Doctor puts Jamie's jacket round Zoe's shoulders.)
 
I suppose that this seems fine. How was it achieved?
 
Okay. Then it should be fine to update those statistics.
 
Thanks. Should we close this thread then?
 
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