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<p>There are many blades in <i>The Waves</i>. Sunbeams, blades of
grass, knife blades, the blade of a fan, shoulder blades. And one
ambiguous one that could as suggested be a fin (but you would not
cover a fin with fleece would you?). And Susan’s body. "My body
has been used daily, rightly, like a tool by a good workman, all
over. The blade is clean, sharp, worn in the centre."</p>
<p>Stuart's classical suggestion seems to me the most convincing,
but the jury is still out.<br>
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<p>As for Lenore C- Terr's interpretation: does she have anything to
say about this?<br>
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“But if you hold a blunt blade to a grindstone long enough,
something spurts – a jagged edge of fire; so held to lack of
reason, aimlessness, the usual, all massed together, out spurted
in one flame hatred, contempt.”</p>
<p>Jeremy H</p>
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