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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:49:20 +0900
From: Akiko Nakata <a-nakata@courante.plala.or.jp>
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Jansy, thanks for your comments.
>1. young girls in a Swiss school ( Armande and Julia were teachers there)
>probably a first connection to the "shuttlecock" ( shuttle also means a
fast
>way of traveling by plane, does it not?)
Sorry for hairsplitting, but I do not agree to this connection. Armande and
Julia taught "posture and rhythmic--things like that" at a school "for
foreign young ladies" in Tessin. The school sounds to me like one of those
finishing schools in Switzerland. The "blond little girl" in Ch. 22--eight
years old or so?--is too small for the school. In a realistic reading, the
first connection would be a girl playing on a camp or school in Armande's
neighborhood, which HP noticed on the way to her house in Ch. 12. The
playing children whose cries HP heard--of course, we remember HH's last
confession--are not same as the ones playing with the girl now, but (HP does
not hear them, but probably) children are playing badminton behind the wall
and a shuttlecock drops on the sidewalk just like eight years ago--as if
nothing had changed. Well, not so "realistic" as I thought.
And thank you for the Nabonidus, and the Konig-Krolik connection as well.
Akiko
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