I have almost finished polishing my tranlation of Mary Postgate, which gives
one plenty of opportunities to examine the pros and cons in interpreting the
text.
Inspite of my initially not believing it, I may have found evidence that it
was indeed a bomb that wounded little Edna and destroyed the cart-lodge.
"Accident ! said Nurse Eden promptly and dashed through the empty bar,
followed by Mary. They found Mrs Gerritt, the publican's wife, who could
only gasp and point to the yard , where a little cart-lodge was slidineg
sideways amid a clatter of tiles. Nurse Eden snatched up a sheet drying
before the fire, ran out, lifted something from the ground...".
>From the time they heard the "gun" , to that when they reached the back of
the pub, little Edna's body has been "ripped and shredded". Nevertheless,
the cart-lodge is still "sliding sideways" and Edna's body already lies on
the ground, from where Nurse Eden lifts it. It is obvious that she has not
been crushed under the rubble, 1) because this has not fully collapsed, 2)
because if she had, she would be covered by it ans Nurse Eden could not lift
her as she is described to do.
This lends credibility to the other agent : a bomb.
MXR
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