just before getting my hands on WoLP I re-read the other two and noticed the bit in LiaGB page 197 where Miss H slips a gold ring onto Thursday's finger. Has this ever been mentioned again or is it a literary reference to something that I'm not getting.

As I recall, the ring gets warm or glows or something right before Miss Havisham appears in the room where Goliath is holding Thursday later in the book. She apparently used it as a homing beacon or some such, in order to jump there. She certainly didn't read herself there, since she's unlikely to have had a description of the room, didn't know Thursday was there, and arrived without anything to read (and thus had to resort to the washing label in Thursday's trousers in order to get out).

Oh yes so I does, now how did I miss that. Thanks you very much now I can sleep at night again! Actually its quite nice that on re-reading a book you find bits you missed the first or second or third time round. Probably didn't sink in because the action was hotting up then and the washing label bit was so funny. Thanks again.

I haven't read LIAGB yet (a bit slow, aren't I?)

But ring heating up -- sorry, that's right out of LOTR. IMHO

hmm... I'm not too sure about that. I don't recall the (LotR's) ring heating up spontaneously... When heated up, that writing did appear, but (IMO) that's a totally different effect than the one in TEA.

rob, who could, of course, be wrong



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