Mr. Hagen, you are of course right. Reading the "ordinary man" passage again, the comment seems totally innocuous -- his description of the woman's clothes reflects the fact that he is describing her not from sight, but from her own description of herself. Re-reading part 7, I am beginning to change my mind about it. I think it is really emotionally complex, something I wasn't really expecting. ---------------------------------------------------------- Michael D. Sharp, Dept. of English, University of Michigan (msharp@umich.edu) - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca