Sev's Silence about Catherine

Roy C. Lackey · 30 Jun 2008, 01:50 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:50:39 -0500
Subject: (urth) Sev's Silence about Catherine
Message-ID: <000e01c8da53$b5b778e0$a7d04a0c at rclackey.stic.net>

b sharp quoted and wrote:
>Don't you think Sev would have noticed any presumed resemblance between
>Thais and Thea on that makeshift raft?

>>I am clearly willing to consider that Sev, despite his continual
comparisons, does
not notice a number of important resemblances, [snip]
>>If I remember correctly, Sev only glimpsed Thea's kaibit twice, both times
on stairways. Perhaps she looks a bit different outdoors on a boat.<< [snip]

He didn't notice a resemblance between the false Thea and Thais all right,
but maybe that can be shrugged off as the natural change wrought by the
ravages of time between meetings. Fifty years does things to a woman's face.

-Roy

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