Better Things to Do (was "But the world isn't like that")

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Fri Oct 18 03:56:07 CDT 2002


Not only that, the woman's ethnicity is never mentioned in the novel. She is
only a "random woman". I think the most poignant thing about the scene is
that Pokler understands that it could even be Leni ....

best



on 18/10/02 12:45 AM, Mark Wright AIA at mwaia at yahoo.com wrote:

> Howdy
> 
> Proper term would be "Jewish", as I'm sure you meant. Watch your step.
> 
> --- barbara100 at jps.net wrote:
> snip
>> How about just one or two.  Wouldn't that be enough?  Aren't we
>> obliged to
>> try? Remember Pokler gave his ring to that Jew woman? Even one makes
>> an
>> important difference.
> snip
> 
> Mark
> 




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