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Originally Posted by CRussel
It's a fish. Let's not carry it too far!
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Why not? Why can't it be seen as significant that in the almost completely masculine milieu of the novel, a female creature is clubbed to death? If the point of the recalled scene was merely to show the two fish being bonded and devoted to each other, why is it that of the two, the female became the victim and the male got to be the courageously loyal one? Why include that terrible story at all?