Where there's smoke, there's flaming.

["p. Dale Campbell" <a026120@goodyear.com>]

In article <44eg1r$4rd@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, jjh969@aol.com (JJH969)
wrote:
> In article <449fns$5lq@dewey.csun.edu>, jbuchwald@csun.edu (Norman
> Buchwald) writes:
> > Have you forgotten "Breathing?"  ("Breathing my mother in/Breathing her
> > nicotine"?)  Why would Kate smoke when she's pregnant ...
>
> Kate's mom smoked ?  Kate seems to have turned out OK.

<\BEGIN OPINION>
This passage is really saying something else.  The "nicotine" refers to
the charred smoke from her mother's *body*; a very disturbing and
effective image (affective, also!), I think.  I used to think that the
narrator was an older person, but now I can see it being a newborn
baby.

{By popular demand, "smoking" flames suppressed.}
<\END OPINION>

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