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"When people tell that story about Marianne washing her blouse [...], they act like it's just funny, but Connel thinks the real purpose of the story is something else. Marianne has never been with anyone in school, no one has ever seen her undressed, [...] she won't tell anyone. People resent that about her. Connell thinks that's why they tell the story, as a way of gawkining at something they're not allowed to see"
— Aug 23, 2025 01:58PM
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"For a moment she just wants to lie here prolonging the intense silence and starting at the lampshade, enjoying the sensory quality of being here in this room again with him, and making him talk to her, but times moves on"
— Aug 30, 2025 05:51PM
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'Even in memory she will find this moment unbearably intense, and she's aware of this now, while it's happening. [...] But now she has a new life, of which this is the first moment, and even after many years have passed she will think: Yes, that was it, the beginning of my life."
— Aug 24, 2025 04:47AM
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"Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was and become part of it"
The juxtaposition of this internal monologue with the description of the Irish's landscape of her hometown is so rich in feelings related to loneliness & rural life. woaw
— Aug 23, 2025 02:00PM
The juxtaposition of this internal monologue with the description of the Irish's landscape of her hometown is so rich in feelings related to loneliness & rural life. woaw
