Talk:The Mother Hunt - Revision history

Faterson at 13:17, 9 August 2007

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added link to discussion forum for The Mother Hunt

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Chapter 20, page 138

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Chapter 20, page 138

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Chapter 14, page 99

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Chapter 14, page 98

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Chapter 13, page 86

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Lon Cohen and Archie, chapter 12, page 80

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 == Chapter 1, page 2 (Bantam edition, 1975) ==

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	== Chapter 1, page 2 (Bantam edition, 1975) ==		== Chapter 1, page 2 (Bantam edition, 1975) ==

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 	It came close, but I didn’t catch it; I was too stunned. I couldn’t believe he had actually done it.
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+== Fritz and Archie, chapter 20, page 138 ==
 “He is worried too, Archie. He thinks there is danger that you may marry that woman.”
 	“I know he does. That suits me fine. In a month or so I can hit him for a raise.”

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	He threw the jacket at me.		He threw the jacket at me.
	It came close, but I didn’t catch it; I was too stunned. I couldn’t believe he had actually done it.		It came close, but I didn’t catch it; I was too stunned. I couldn’t believe he had actually done it.
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		+	== Chapter 20, page 138 ==
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		+	“He is worried too, Archie. He thinks there is danger that you may marry that woman.”
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		+	“I know he does. That suits me fine. In a month or so I can hit him for a raise.”

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	No man with any sense assumes that a woman’s words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.		No man with any sense assumes that a woman’s words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.
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		+	== Chapter 14, page 99 ==
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		+	He threw the jacket at me.
		+	It came close, but I didn’t catch it; I was too stunned. I couldn’t believe he had actually done it.

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	Apparently they were discussing literature; there were three books on Wolfe’s desk and one in his hand, open. I went and sat and listened. Yep, literature. I got up and started out and was stopped by Wolfe’s voice.		Apparently they were discussing literature; there were three books on Wolfe’s desk and one in his hand, open. I went and sat and listened. Yep, literature. I got up and started out and was stopped by Wolfe’s voice.
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		+	== Chapter 14, page 98 ==
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		+	No man with any sense assumes that a woman’s words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

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	“That’s not only vulgar,” I said, “it’s irrelevant.”		“That’s not only vulgar,” I said, “it’s irrelevant.”
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		+	== Chapter 13, page 86 ==
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		+	Apparently they were discussing literature; there were three books on Wolfe’s desk and one in his hand, open. I went and sat and listened. Yep, literature. I got up and started out and was stopped by Wolfe’s voice.

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	She put a hand out and I took it. That was how our cordial relations had started, three weeks back, when I had spent a long evening with her, making up her list and picking the four men to be asked to help. When a handshake goes beyond routine even for one second, it’s a test. If you both decide it’s enough at the same instant, fine. But if she’s through before you are, or vice versa, look out. You don’t fit. Lucy and I had been simultaneous the first time. We were this time too.		She put a hand out and I took it. That was how our cordial relations had started, three weeks back, when I had spent a long evening with her, making up her list and picking the four men to be asked to help. When a handshake goes beyond routine even for one second, it’s a test. If you both decide it’s enough at the same instant, fine. But if she’s through before you are, or vice versa, look out. You don’t fit. Lucy and I had been simultaneous the first time. We were this time too.
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		+	== Lon Cohen and Archie, chapter 12, page 80 ==
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		+	“You have the nerve of a one-legged man at an ass-kicking convention,” he said.
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		+	“That’s not only vulgar,” I said, “it’s irrelevant.”