GR, page 123: Jessica's lamb

[David Morris]

It's a common term of endearment.

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On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:56 AM bulb <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:

> Another one of these things I never caught before in GR.  This is Jessica:
>
> "The images go, flowering, in and out, some lovely, some just awful . . .
> but she's snuggled in here with her lamb, her Roger, and how she loves the
> line of his neck all at once so-why there it is right there, the back of
> his
> bumpy head like a boy of ten's. [...]"
>
> Why that "lamb"? A religious connotation (which I think doubtful)?
>
> Michel.
>
> (and note the "ten's" which corresponds to Mexico's: "With her hair pulled
> back of her ears, her soft chin in profile, she looks only 9 or 10" on p.
> 122.
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