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I can't imagine! Why would a beautiful woman, married to an older man, want to get away from the prying eyes of Fair Isle to spend an afternoon alone with an attractive student? If that was the case, they could just have slipped behind the bike sheds. -Why go all the way to the main island? You think? === If she was the last Icterine Warbler on Earth, this number of pictures would be excessive... Uh-huh. === "On the bubble" refers to a patient balanced on the threshold between life and death. -Why "bubble"? Apparently, it relates to the Indy 500 race in America. If a driver was only just about to qualify for the race proper, and a rival posted a better time, then the first driver's dreams are dashed and his bubble is burst. === The...the affairs. I hated it. I hated it. But I learned to live with it. === Some people look at all this terrible beauty and they see the hand of God in it. But where was God when my xyzxyz died? Where was God then?