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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
Did you have fun reviewing your notes, sun surfer? I did.  I think I discovered that Collins used a lot of foreshadowing and sometimes he was very direct in hinting what was coming and one needn’t question it too much. For example, I loved the line when Walter is trying to figure out how to deal with Fosco when he decides he must consult his Italian friend Professor Pesca and he says “The professor has been so long absent from these pages that he has run some risk of being forgotten altogether.” Why yes embarrassing to admit that I had forgotten that he existed! Thanks for the reminder, Walter! It seems so obvious now that Pesca would not have had such an entertaining introduction at the beginning of the book if he weren’t to make an important reappearance later. His role was more than to just introduce Walter to Laura and her family. He must also return the favor to Walter to save/regain his life. |
I had the same reaction to this character. I too had forgotten all about him.
The use of Professor Pesca was very clever—and in hindsight—obvious. 😉 But that is the very complaint made by Holmes when Watson describes the detective’s chain of logic as being absurdly simple after it has been explained to him.