VL-IV: Chap7-Wayvone wedding

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Tahiti is one island in the multiple islands composing French Polynesia.  Maybe it's Ralph talking?:  any old Tahiti or one of them other islands.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

>Laura:
>Nice image of taking a vacation in time rather than space, but the sentence has an odd ending:
>
>"[Ralph Sr.] could take another of what he'd come to think of as microvacations on an island of time fragile and precious as any Tahiti or one of them."  One of them?
>
>I found this: Any Tahiti Resort Guide would give you detailed information about just what hotels in Tahiti have to offer. 
>
>Perhaps the phrase has currency for the islands in the aggregate and 'one of them' apllies to just one island? yes, strange verbal
>construction.