Reduplication

[igenlode]

Just finished rough-typing the first 3,000 words or so of the final confrontation between Hertha and Christine (up to the end of the third notebook; there are a few pages of overflow into another book). Reading this immediately after answering reviews on the final chapter of "The Daaé Case" rather highlights the fact that I've reused the trope (and pretty much the same wording!) of the one character protesting that Raoul ought to be be 'told' something for his own good, and the other one remaining insistent that he is better off not knowing... :-(

Given that the two scenes were written about five years apart, the echo was rather less obvious at the time of composition than when reading the chapters one after another, alas!