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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