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3 years, 3 months ago

I don't think it's about winning inspo/characterisation

Shrillness came pouring out of Robin. "I can't believe it! That's the whole point. God! It is so, so, so like him not to mention that part. Because that part might actually make things hard for him, you know, the way things are hard for me. It might get in the way of his fun time in Paris, or his l…

—p.466 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
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3 years, 3 months ago

I don't think it's about winning inspo/characterisation

Shrillness came pouring out of Robin. "I can't believe it! That's the whole point. God! It is so, so, so like him not to mention that part. Because that part might actually make things hard for him, you know, the way things are hard for me. It might get in the way of his fun time in Paris, or his l…

—p.466 by Jonathan Franzen
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3 years, 3 months ago

she would lose and Brian would win

She believed that if, when the Generator opened, reviewers paid more attention to the space than to the food, she would lose and Brian would win. And so she worked her ass off. She convection-roasted country ribs to brownness and cut them thin, along the grain, for presentation, reduced and darkene…

—p.459 by Jonathan Franzen
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3 years, 3 months ago

another facet of his really fun life

She was haunted, just as she'd feared, by the afterimage of his dick. She felt gladder and gladder that she hadn't let him put it in her. Brian had every advantage that she had, plus many of his own. He was male, he was rich, he was a born insider; he wasn't hampered by Lambert weirdnesses or stron…

—p.459 by Jonathan Franzen
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3 years, 3 months ago

he'd given no warning of his change of heart inspo/sex

[...] She was ready to go home.

Two nights before they left, she knocked on Brian's door before dinner and he pulled her into his room and kissed her.

He'd given no warning of his change of heart. She visited the confessor in her head and was able to say, "Nothing! I did nothing! I knocked on…

—p.457 by Jonathan Franzen