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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 02:30:42 EST
From: Petersfo@aol.com
Editor,
96 17-18. It seems that there are two magazines here. The Swiss gentleman
is reading the magazine that Hugh left 8 years ago. We don't know what its
title is. Hugh picks up the Transatlantic ( which the Swiss gentleman had
presumably just read, and upon which he had his elbow) which is described as
among "fairly recent periodicals" and it is that magazine which has an article
referring to "a man who murdered his spouse eight years ago." A kind of
parallel magazines: one old, which Hugh had left behind; the other recent,
containing an article about Hugh from the time of the first magazine. I think
it
is deliberate that we might confuse the two. It makes me think of the
phenomenon where memory can conflate two separate incidents and turn them into
a
"false" single incident.
Peter Washburn
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