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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Roy C. Lackey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rclackey@stic.net">rclackey@stic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Between Doris's lunch note and her arrival to pick him up, Bax got out the<br>triannulus. Its three rings were still aligned to fish but "the pointer had<br>
wandered away." (33) More importantly, he first noticed at that time that<br>"When the rings were aligned to fish, several other things fell into line as<br>well." Recall that among the glyphs were some that "may be indecent." (26)<br>
We aren't told which other glyphs also lined up or where the pointer had<br>wandered away to, but it would be a good bet that one of those glyph<br>alignments was "indecent", and its magic is what put Doris and Winker in the<br>
sack with Bax.<br></blockquote>
<div>Absolutely - I was going to say something along the same lines but work intervened. I was thinking that perhaps the "other things" might just have been "women". Bax does of course get 3 women: Doris, Winkle and Millie (assuming Winkle counts). </div>
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