GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, rj wrote:
> 
> Paul refers to a theory I have seen reference to before hereabouts:
> 
> > Not that it matters to me (because it wasn't REAL, heh, heh) but somebody
> > proved with algegra that Bianca actually was a big girl.
> 
> I'd be very interested to see the (legendary) working out of this
> particular formulation with reference to the text. (I assume that it has
> something to do with Bianca's conception on 'Alpdrucken' night, but I've
> always assumed that that film was fictive.) 

Yes, what I was referring to has been discussed several times here over
the years. Had to do with recontructing with a calendar when this or that
event needed to have occurred. The calculations made Bianca older than we
had previously been led to believe. It was one of those "reader traps"
someone had written an article about, which I personally never read so
have gotten the whole thing second hand. Anyway, my little quip in
reference to it wasn't meant to be a serious disagreement with what rj was
saying. As p-listers may suspect, whether Bianca was pre or post
pubescent doesn't figure in my interpretation of the scene. (not implying
I have much of an interpretation)

			P.