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“When you see someone you love continually weighing in secret, like gleaming copper weights on the pans of a copper scale on the one side her life, on the other her death and you see her stooping to examine precisely on which side it tips, how can you help but peer over her shoulder?”
— Jul 27, 2025 10:22AM
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[on the Narrator’s forgetfulness] “It’s only normal,” people tell him. “All narrators are like that. It’s why they write fiction, in fact”
— Jul 27, 2025 12:54PM
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But where you and I say "I," she would say the "I" of someone else, then someone else again, never quite managing to say her own.
— Jul 24, 2025 02:27PM
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No doubt we all have someone else inside us, thought the Narrator, though, to tell the truth, I've never felt this with anyone but Fanny. And if I examine my conscience, the Narrator went on, I know that I myself am that character, the writer's secret twin, the one writing this story and the stranger within.
— Jul 24, 2025 02:26PM
