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19. Dinner with the Isaacs’
Lurie mentions he has been in a state of disgrace, while I thought the real disgrace is yet to come. Is the eponymous disgrace merely a humble lesson? I expected more shame, more isolation. Of course it’s tough to lose your livelihood and colleagues, your surroundings. But the attack has nothing to with it. I’m confused and a bit… disappointed? Let’s wait for the final part.
— Mar 04, 2026 09:32AM
Lurie mentions he has been in a state of disgrace, while I thought the real disgrace is yet to come. Is the eponymous disgrace merely a humble lesson? I expected more shame, more isolation. Of course it’s tough to lose your livelihood and colleagues, your surroundings. But the attack has nothing to with it. I’m confused and a bit… disappointed? Let’s wait for the final part.
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Eric Maas
is on page 219 of 240
’I thought you would save him for another week,’ says Bev Shaw. ‘Are you giving him up?’
‘Yes, I am giving him up.’
That last bit is devastating. To let go, because after all, what is one more week?
Here’s to a worthy end. For the novel also…
— Mar 05, 2026 06:41AM
‘Yes, I am giving him up.’
That last bit is devastating. To let go, because after all, what is one more week?
Here’s to a worthy end. For the novel also…
Eric Maas
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…how one can enter what seems to be an ordinary room and never come out again. Something happens in this room, something unmentionable: here the soul is yanked out of the body; briefly it hangs about in the air, twisting and contorting; then it is sucked away and is gone. It will be beyond him, this room that is not a room but a hole where one leaks out of existence.
— Mar 05, 2026 06:34AM
Eric Maas
is on page 190 of 240
The marriage of Cronus and Harmony, unnatural . Cronus instead of Cadmus, that’s pretty dark of Lurie, and no mistake by Coetzee, I’m sure… (p190)
— Mar 04, 2026 02:28PM
Eric Maas
is on page 187 of 240
20. Back in the Capetown house, burgled and plundered, university and old neighbourhood, Lurie wears a grim burlap cloth of atonement. And then seemingly out of nowhere, the Byron opera finally happens when he switches focus to an older ‘dumpy’ Teresa on a banjo, with Byron appearing ghostly from the underworld. Scenes and language equally beautiful…
— Mar 04, 2026 02:00PM
Eric Maas
is on page 186 of 240
On those pine-needles Byron had his Teresa — ‘timid as a gazelle,’ he called her — rumpling her clothes, getting sand into her underwear (the horses standing by all the while, incurious), and from the occasion a passion was born that kept Teresa howling to the moon for the rest of her natural life in a fever that has set him howling too, after his manner .
— Mar 04, 2026 01:48PM
Eric Maas
is on page 185 of 240
A woman in love, wallowing in love; a cat on a roof, howling; complex proportions swirling in the blood, distending the sexual organs, making the palms sweat and voice thicken as the soul hurls its longings to the skies. That is what Sorays and the others are for: to suck the complex proteins out of his blood like snake venom, leaving him clear-headed and dry. (p185)
— Mar 04, 2026 01:40PM
