Beware the tiles of March.
Pasha Paterson (gpaterso@richmond.edu)
Tue, 03 Nov 1998 21:23:34 -0500
At 01:52 11/04/98 +0000, Sarah (cinnimon) wrote:
>I know this subject has pretty much ceased to exist, but I just wanted to
put my bit
>in before it was *too* late.
You should know us by now...it's never too late to drag up old disputes :)
>I have recently finnisihed _Teddy_ and while I first came to the
conclusion that it
>was Teddy that was pushed in the pool, I've since changed my mind....
>The paragraph goes on to expain how the scream was "reverberating within
the four
>tiled walls," thus suggesting that (since the ship does not have tiled
walls), the
>scream is coming from within the empty pool.
I see your point, but I would point out that most indoor pools (and this would
include indoor pools on ships) are in rooms with tiled walls. Your
observation,
though, is interesting, and I don't want to sound like I think it's totally
unfounded.
>One final note...around the middle of the story, Teddy reminds Booper that
she has a
>swimming lesson on the E deck; however, there is no E deck. In the end of
the story
>Teddy goes from the A deck down to the D deck-someone a few days ago
suggested that
>the E deck was actually the pool, or bottom of the pool, in itself. I
know this
>sounds odd, but I was just wondering how everyone else takes this. Could
this
>possibly be forshaddowing of Booper's death?
A very interesting twist. I'd never thought of this. However, when Nicholson
(I think that's the doctor's name) is running down the stairs to catch up with
Teddy, he is stopped in surprise on D deck by the sound of the "girl"
screaming.
I would be reluctant to accept that this is because there was no E deck; I
always
thought he stopped because he was surprised by the scream.
I could, of course, be wrong. Nobody will ever "prove" one way or another.
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