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From: OLLIER Nicole - Pays Anglophones <ollier@montaigne.u-bordeaux.fr>
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>Perhaps obtuse question: where, or what, is "Chur" mentioned in the
>beginning of Transparent Things? Is it in Massachussets? And if it is,
>does this mean that the ghostly reflection that Hugh sees in the mirror in
>the elevator belong's to the dead hotel owner? Always puzzled by this one..
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I don't exactly remember that passage in TT and have no book at hand, but
Chur is a city in Switzerland. In le Canton des Grisons (Graubünden, or
something like that in German)that is the city where trains stop and you
change to get a bus or another smaller train to reach the ski resorts like
Arosa, Flims, St Moritz (I think).
Check on an atlas for more details
Christine Raguet-Bouvart
Bordeaux III
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>Perhaps obtuse question: where, or what, is "Chur" mentioned in the
>beginning of Transparent Things? Is it in Massachussets? And if it is,
>does this mean that the ghostly reflection that Hugh sees in the mirror in
>the elevator belong's to the dead hotel owner? Always puzzled by this one..
>
>
I don't exactly remember that passage in TT and have no book at hand, but
Chur is a city in Switzerland. In le Canton des Grisons (Graubünden, or
something like that in German)that is the city where trains stop and you
change to get a bus or another smaller train to reach the ski resorts like
Arosa, Flims, St Moritz (I think).
Check on an atlas for more details
Christine Raguet-Bouvart
Bordeaux III