MJ's Challenge ~ The Voyage Out

[Ribh]

I wonder what she's signifying?

I'm not sure but I think Rachel might be the key to that... Or perhaps Helen & Rachel together...

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm really enjoying her turn of phrase.

 

[MaryJanet]

I have an uneasy feeling we should be reading this alongside Melymbrosia ~ the reconstruction of the original work with all the political etc bits put back in.

I was wondering that too.

 

[Ribh]

Me too.

Sorry if we've jumped the gun on you. I had kiddiewinks today so I knew I wasn't up for anything else strenuous & read last night.

 

[Ribh]

I was wondering that too.

We will terrify others if we do that I think.

 

[Ribh]

I'm really enjoying her turn of phrase.

It's not jarring on me as much as I thought it might. I am waiting to see how other things pan out with this style. I suspect it will suit them very well.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Can I check something? Chapter 1, para 2, "... the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips... "

Is the highlighted guess a typo in the edition I'm reading?

Mine has the same passage.

Probably the most telling sentence from chapter 1.

Each of the ladies, being after the fashion of their sex, highly trained in promoting men’s talk without listening to it, could think⁠—about the education of children, about the use of fog sirens in an opera⁠—without betraying herself.

In his case one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed stonily straight in front of her at a level above the eyes of most that it was sorrow.

Ah, this makes a lot more sense.

 

[MaryJanet]

May I have another error check? Unlicked?

 

[MaryJanet]

Ok, I'm up to chapter 2 now and ready to discuss chapter 1 when everyone's ready don't rush though, I've got other books on the go, so there's plenty for me to read in between chapters.

 

[Ribh]

May I have another error check? Unlicked?

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From all this Helen drew her own conclusions, which were gloomy enough. Pepper was a bore; Rachel was an unlicked girl, no doubt prolific of confidences, the very first of which would be: “You see, I don’t get on with my father.”