Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida Leaving the Bath

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once. The long needle trembled on the dolphin, the helmet, the baby, and the anchor, dancing between them and onto the crucible in a complicated pattern that Lyra's eyes followed without hesitation, but which was incomprehensible to the two men.
When it had completed the movements several times, Lyra looked up. She blinked once or twice as if she were coming out of a trance.
"They're fifteen times and it just got clear at that level but nowhere else. And the helmet means war, and both together they mean pretend to go to war but not be serious. And the baby means-it means difficult-it'd be too hard for them to attack it, and the anchor says why, because they'd be stretched out as tight as an anchor rope. I just see it all like that, you see."
Dr. Lanselius nodded.
"Remarkable," he said. "I am very grateful. I shall not forget that."going to pretend to attack it, but they're not really going to, because it's too far away and they'd be too stretched out," she said."Would you tell me how you read that?""The dolphin, one of its deep-down meanings is playing, sort of like being playful," she explained. "I know it's the fifteenth because it stopped