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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
We are told that with the addition of General Loewenhielm, "they would now be twelve for dinner". Rather than the Last Supper, I think there is a suggestion of Pentecost:
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Great insight, Bookpossum.
I loved the way the author played with New Testament themes in the story, like Babette as "the dark Martha in the house of their two fair Marys". I wonder if she was also thinking of Kipling for that.
"The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart."
- Rudyard Kipling