I think the introductory paragraph tells us more than I first realised about this story, and about the way Bodie's mind is working
I am so impressed that you gleaned all of this from that paragraph. Because I felt all the way through that despite having access to Bodie's thoughts, I really couldn't understand him. I just wasn't sure what to make of what he told us about his actions at all. For example, pairing Leeds and Radclyffe on the basis of aesthetics? They looked pretty together? ("Pairings had been founded on less.") This is such a patently ridiculous thing to do when teaming people for the field that I felt there had to be a different reason, and yet even with access to what he was telling us, I couldn't be sure.
The torch analogy didn't work for me either. I thought "Ooh, that's a clever idea" at first, and then - well, yeah. An idea, a clever thing to draw a link to, but something that just didn't work for me. And how did the comparison at the end about "The small fire lit the bigger one" fit into it? Was Doyle, the torch, the small fire? The big one the Olympic flame? The flames of their love?
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I am so impressed that you gleaned all of this from that paragraph. Because I felt all the way through that despite having access to Bodie's thoughts, I really couldn't understand him. I just wasn't sure what to make of what he told us about his actions at all. For example, pairing Leeds and Radclyffe on the basis of aesthetics? They looked pretty together? ("Pairings had been founded on less.") This is such a patently ridiculous thing to do when teaming people for the field that I felt there had to be a different reason, and yet even with access to what he was telling us, I couldn't be sure.
The torch analogy didn't work for me either. I thought "Ooh, that's a clever idea" at first, and then - well, yeah. An idea, a clever thing to draw a link to, but something that just didn't work for me. And how did the comparison at the end about "The small fire lit the bigger one" fit into it? Was Doyle, the torch, the small fire? The big one the Olympic flame? The flames of their love?