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She began to question the most sacred assumptions. Why must some people be poor? Why do I have to wear stockings, and gloves? Why are men’s and women’s lives different? Why must I go to the Langfords’ dance tonight? Her mother sighed and shook her head. Her father folded his newspaper, stared at her, and said he hoped she wasn’t becoming a silly little socialist.
— Jan 28, 2026 05:46PM
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It sometimes seemed to Molly that the library was a place of silent discord and anarchy, its superficial tranquility concealing a babel of assertion and dispute. Fiction is one strident lie — or rather, many competing lies; history is a long narrative of argument and reassessment; travel shouts of self-promotion….The surface repose of a library is a cynical deception.
— Feb 02, 2026 08:03PM
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”May I ask, Miss Faraday, what book is on your bedside table at this moment?” …
“There are three, she said. “One is the Collected Works of Shakespeare, because my brother is doing The Merchant of Venice at school, and I am giving him some help. There is also a Gallimard edition of a novel by Francois Mauriac; I am finding it quite hard going….And there is a novel by Elizabeth Bowen, which I am enjoying.”
— Feb 02, 2026 07:09PM
“There are three, she said. “One is the Collected Works of Shakespeare, because my brother is doing The Merchant of Venice at school, and I am giving him some help. There is also a Gallimard edition of a novel by Francois Mauriac; I am finding it quite hard going….And there is a novel by Elizabeth Bowen, which I am enjoying.”
