(urth) The Land Across Discussion (Spoilers!)

[Piotr Szczęsny]

Hello,
This is my first contribution to the urth list and I'd like to thank
Matthew King for encouraging me to post here.
So first off is my question, I'm not a native speaker, though my
English is not bad, but you know, Wolfe use of language can be hard.
So the thing that caught my attention is in this following sentences,
Volitain , Martya and Grafton are looking for a cafe, they sit in one
and dialogue goes like this:

"It is a place for feeling," Martya said as we trudged across the
atrium. "Most quick I feel Volitain hand on my leg, and he my
scissors."

(22 page in hardcover, Location 268 in Kindle edition)

The use of scissors is what bugs me... I understood this, as the
Voltain places his hand on Martya leg, she closes her legs (scissoring
motion), keeping a  tight grip on his hand?
Thanks for any help with this.

And next I'm going to address Matthew question:
* Should we know what girl the hand belongs to?
Is it possible that hand belongs to the girl behind the mirror? I
think so :She was curled, so missing hand could be overlooked by
Grafton and he didn't get a good look at her.
She (lady ghost & the hand)likes Grafton because she knows he made her
a decent burial.And the Hand tried to kill Naala... Maybe of jealousy?

Also girl with red pen is the waitress in other cafe, right? I think
she is somehow connected to the girl behind the mirror, and she thanks
Grafton NOT for hitting that guy at cafe, but for burial of mirror
girl but this is a little farfetched, what you think?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20131211/231ccca0/attachment-0004.htm>