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Date Posted: 13:18:36 10/15/07 Mon
Author: pamelalass
Subject: Thanks, ladies, for helping me think this through. While I know maddiej is right about John's only reason for being present (blackmail), and the unpremeditated instinctiveness of his behavior, I do think it turns into something more, and something that does have parallels with Jamie at Gavin's execution, because of the crowd, and the risk of guilt by association. >>>>

I think just calling Bates's name the way he does revealed that he knew the man, even before he did the leg-pulling. The inner thoughts we are privy to here don't reveal whether he thinks about Bates as a fellow officer, a convicted (though not actual) "fellow" homosexual, or a worthless blackmailer, but in the end I see his actions here as a representation of his humanity, and it feels too coincidental for me not to see it as a narrative linking of John to Jamie. But, to kgp's point, of course the book, and this scene, must also stand alone, for a reader who doesn't know anything about Jamie. The leg-puller detail does give the scene its own purpose and impact.

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