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| "I will be back 3/17 for my day, I hope to see you then"- Elizabeth Bowen |
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Bowen is marvelous at using minute observations to develop character. The work ends on a very brutal and shocking note, made all the more brutal, to me any way, by the fact that it comes in the context of the very refined world of Eva Trout. I liked Eva Trout a lot. Of the four novels by Bowen I have read, it is second best to me to In The Heat of the Day. I will venture my over all comments on started with Bowen on March 17, Elizabeth Bowen Day during Irish Short Week.
Eva was a reader and she says something very interesting about the reading life during a conversations with one of the people whose job it was to guide this very wealthy young woman. The male handler is trying to tell her she is too young and inexperienced to handle her own affairs.
As I read this I began to think why and how she became "soiled" by reading. I am still thinking about it and I think it expresses a deep truth about the reading life. There is another great line by a minor character: "The horrible thing about intelligence is its uselessness".
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Eva was a reader and she says something very interesting about the reading life during a conversations with one of the people whose job it was to guide this very wealthy young woman. The male handler is trying to tell her she is too young and inexperienced to handle her own affairs.
I am capable de tout. I am soiled by living more than a thousand lives; I have lived through book ; I have lived internally.
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| "Please do not leave me alone with Carmilla!" Rory |
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| "Would someone tell Rory, I am in charge of Irish Short Story Week, I have no idea who even invited him?" -Carmilla- |
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What a great way to celebrate this week: wonderful!
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