h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Another footnote to explain that scapulae are the shoulder blades.

Galatea had two scars, one on each scapula, running parallel, as if she might have once been a winged angel.


jwf

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Corinth

Just one final thought about the scars. Because they are 'jagged' I had to think they were the result of violence or cruelty, possibly war.
If we are supposed to think they might be the result of wing removal (an act of God) surely they would be 'clean', 'almost imperceptable' and 'surgical' in appearance...

But then, I never could get my head around a 'vengeful' god only a 'just' one.

peace
~jwf~

*Corinth replied elsewhere:*

I can only respond with conjecture. If indeed those scars were the remnants of wings that had been removed, and indeed they had been removed by an act of God, then surely they would be clean and imperceptible. But we have two unconfirmed premises to that conconclusion, and a change of either one could result in jagged scars. Someone other than God might have removed the wings. Or there may never have been wings at all. We'll never know.
Corinth

Again, the author can neither confirm nor deny these or any out-of-context quotations attributed to himself. He furthermore believes the editor should stop spoonfeeding the reader.