"Sally Manton" smanton@hotmail.com wrote:

Jacqui: <There are two cases where 'hell' is used as a destination in B7 - Blake and Provine, and Avon and Servalan in 'Rumours' - which implies that 'some' sort of religious belief survived.>

and kathryn: <Maybe, maybe not... it could be just a linguistic echo...>

Am inclined to agree with Kathryn; IMO it's rather like the way we use Nemesis.

In both cases the utterers 'mean' something (as distinct 'from oh dear I have dropped something on my toe') - more than an 'emphasis word,;

Jacqui

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