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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Jane Delawney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jane_delawney@sky.com">jane_delawney@sky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On 25/01/11 22:27, Mr Thalassocrat wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><pre>On another tack, "Sea shell" is surely some kind of literary shadow-cousin
to Seawrack. Not the same character, obviously, but both lost a left arm,
both attached to older men.
</pre></blockquote></div>Seawrack lost her RIGHT arm, amputated just below the shoulder </div></blockquote>
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<div>Oops! You're right. Anyway, they've both lost an arm.</div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">by mysterious means (?some kind of sea-creature? an inhumi? her adoptive 'mother', trying to cling to her? what?).</div></blockquote>
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<div>Well, it's pretty clear that Babbie did it.</div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Also I don't see where it is demonstrated that Seawrack is younger than Horn at the time they first meet, please correct me if you know. <br></div></blockquote>
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<div>Surely she was younger. Horn must be in his mid/late thirties at this point; humans have only been on Blue for ~20 years. But I was thinking really of Silk, the one she departs with in the end, for the age thing.</div>
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<div>Anyway, to the extent it means anything at all, I think it has most to do with contrasts between the two women and their situations. </div></div>