Cabin on the Coast question

Dave Tallman · 26 May 2008, 22:53 · from 2008-May.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:53:54 -0600
Subject: (urth) Cabin on the Coast question
Message-ID: <483B3F82.1040802 at gmail.com>

I was rereading some stories in "Endangered Species" and I had a 
question: what is Tim wearing in the final scene?

There are two possible answers:
1) Swimming trunks.
He swam out to the black freighter in his trunks, so it would make sense 
for him to return in them, if they still fit...

2) Nothing.
If things will "stand so again" as on the day Lissy vanished, Tim 
started that day naked in bed.

In either case, especially the latter, Lissy's reaction to "Big Tim" is 
disturbing. She doesn't scream at a naked or almost-naked man barging in 
on her. She talks to him casually. Are we to infer that she has also 
been the lover of "Big Tim?"

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