Dear Don,

As you say there is no censorship, I am reposting the mail. This is what Jansy and I asked you to send to the list, but we did not see. We do not believe you have a senescence problem!

Best, Akiko 

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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 König-Krölik connection as well.

 

Akiko