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Just finished reading ‘The Picnic’, a short story MG wrote in 1952. Having read through a few of her other collections of short fiction, I do get a sense of her not being as fully developed in her ‘mindset’ for writing as she’ll be later. Her writing skills per se, of course, were great already - it’s just her cultural perspectives or something that were a bit greenhorn in the early days.
— Apr 11, 2022 08:23AM
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Ok. Just read MG’s short piece ‘Going Ashore’ - Add - in Tangiers, Africa. A few hours of a slice of the life of a nice, but questionably home schooled twelve year old girl Emma, with a seemingly promiscuous mom who seemed to mysteriously, successfully live off men what with all the money she was throwing around; I mean a forty-five day cross-Atlantic cruise for two? Who can afford that?
— Apr 13, 2022 01:46PM
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Apr 11, 2022 08:28AM
Fancy her taking off for Paris like that! What was her rhyme or reason? I’d say she had blinkers on for the ex-pat writers’ community in Paris. Here the crux of that problem. Ex-pat writers were in Paris throughout the years and decades not really all at the same time to make a writers’ colony in real-time. If she moved to Paris for love, why don’t we know about it?
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Basically, much like VW’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’ in which, all day long, Clarissa Dalloway plans the evening party for most of the novel, and then the readers get abruptly cut off and we don’t really get too much party-action; well, MG’s ‘The Picnic’ is the same - the characters plan all morning to go to the picnic, then the readers get cut off and we get no picnic-action at all. Hmpf - perhaps ‘Mrs Dalloway’ , the novel as written, was MG’s writing prompt for this early, uncollected, never previously published short story of hers. It’s guess the prompt time!
