Mephisto 2531

[stultus]

Can anyone please explain 1ac? "Bowling returns, providing dominant theme." The answer is clearly MOTIF. I can see IF for "providing", but am stumped re MOT as "bowling returns".

[Quizmonster]

Tom Bowling is a character in the novel, Roderick Random.

[stultus]

QM... I'm utterly impressed. Thanks a lot.

[AHearer]

Perhaps more famously, except for the very well read, TB appear in a song, also known as A Sailor's Epitaph,
"Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling,
The darling of our crew;
No more he'll hear the tempest howling,
For death has broach'd him to..."
which features in the Fantasia on British Sea Songs.

[stultus]

AHearer......... thanks for that. Interesting stuff.