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Ruth MacLure
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The mother summarises the novel : son takes her on a bizarre melodramatic journey through their past while she gets increasingly intoxicated and "he blames everything on Switzerland, the Nazis and the second world war"
— Feb 20, 2026 05:18AM
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Ruth MacLure
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Scheherezade, the stories told to distract his mother to somehow ward off death or disaster, yet the stories are all lurid tales of death and disaster
— Feb 20, 2026 05:09AM
Ruth MacLure
is on page 110 of 209
P112 "it is the dubious privilege of the petite bourgeoisie to have an interest in fruit and cheese and fresh cauliflower, she refused to do so, she would eat only ready-made meals, everything else was pedestrian"
P 69 "and then they came for the vegans"
Meat and milk as politics, power
References to the film Soylent Green
— Feb 20, 2026 04:37AM
P 69 "and then they came for the vegans"
Meat and milk as politics, power
References to the film Soylent Green
Ruth MacLure
is on page 110 of 209
Sleazy, uncomfortable.
There's a word that means dirty ugly money. I have forgotten it. LUCRE. This is that.
Realising that Swiss neutrality actually implied complicity.
— Feb 20, 2026 04:32AM
There's a word that means dirty ugly money. I have forgotten it. LUCRE. This is that.
Realising that Swiss neutrality actually implied complicity.
