GRGR(24): Bianca's whereabouts

Jeremy Osner jeremy at xyris.com
Fri Apr 14 08:07:31 CDT 2000


Ok, I found the source of my confusion: the two mentions of Bianca on p.
491 and 492, I had thought were actually her; but they are both
hallucinations by TS. We haven't "actually seen" her since before
Greta's toilet-stall confession (is that an appropriate term here?)

Thanks Mark Wright, for the information that Bianca was hanging in the
engine room; when I reread the scene with that in mind I understood
sentences that had been meaningless to me previously. And it's good to
not be sure, whether (a) there is actually a body hanging in the engine
room and (b) it is Bianca, or whether TS is hallucinating again. Does
the fact that he says, "Thanatz? Morituri?" while he's on the ladder
mean he thinks one of them is the attacker? Or is he thinking one of
them could come to his rescue vs. the attacker?

Jeremy




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