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Date Posted: 12:39:50 11/12/07 Mon
Author: devenhuis
Subject: I just started reading Brotherhood, & I noted something I thought could be interesting.

When John is heading for Helwater for Geneva's funeral, he is of course thinking about who else is there (& I had not gotten the impression of the closeness between him & the Dunsaneys--but that's for another day). He is picturing Jamie--the scars on his hand, the pockmark at the corner of his mouth... screech! What pockmark? How is that Claire has never commented on it? She rarely mentions his hand in any detail past their reunion, but I can understand that. She tends to focus on the scar at the base of his throat, etc.
But it is interesting to see what John finds attractive (physically) about Jamie, as compared to Claire. How much of the difference is connected to gender, era, or background? Male/female, 18th/20th century, soldier/ doctor. So far as I have read (just before the funeral & a casual flip-through when I picked it up), Jamie seems to loom more in in John's mind--physically impressive, I mean: tall, strong, etc.--than in Claire's.

Am I making sense or am I just babbling?

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Diana actually commented on that when someone asked about the pockmark on Compuserve. She says she has one in the same place, a souvenir of chicken pox, and she doesn't think even her husband has ever noticed it. Just an indication of how closely Lord John observes Jamie. (NT) -- Karen, 12:58:39 11/12/07 Mon
- Karen, it looks like you and I posted nearly at the same moment. Glad you also remembered that it was discussed; now if I could only find that post.... (NT) -- teddie, 13:01:31 11/12/07 Mon
  - Link (inside >>>>) -- Karen, 13:07:55 11/12/07 Mon
- Also - I think the reason Claire has never commented on it is that she'd have to be in pretty close range of him to notice it, and at that point she certainly would have other things to occupy herself with other than staring closely at his mouth :-) (NT) -- Karen, 13:04:59 11/12/07 Mon
  - that's true (I certainly would have!). And John hasn't been so close to Jamie as to be... (ahem) ...distracted. (NT) -- devenhuis, 14:51:18 11/12/07 Mon
- LOL- I have a pockmark right by my temple- I don't know that my husband has ever noticed it- in fact, the only person I remember noticing it is a friend recently- took me quite by surprise, since no one has ever noticed really. (NT) -- Oleander, 19:54:19 11/12/07 Mon
I don't think you are babbling...I wondered about this also upon first reading it. I think DG responded to questions about it on the Compuserve forum, but I can't find it. Maybe someone else might know of it? (NT) -- teddie, 12:59:01 11/12/07 Mon
I completely agree about the impression of closeness with the Dunsany's-- perhaps because we are getting more of his perspective...perhaps it is merely author's license, since it works with the story... (NT) -- Oleander, 19:56:25 11/12/07 Mon

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