Chapter 10 - 12 Flashcards
(7 cards)
What happens in chapter 10?
Moira, lydia, notions of female sexuality
Amazing grace banned cause had word free
‘In a gradually heating………’
Bathtub you’d be boiled to death before u knew’
Gradual nature of stuff
we lived in the blank white spaces……..’
at the edges of the print
the unimportant, the unseen, the irrelevant, unneeded. Sometimes it is not the blatantly obvious that is blatantly wrong….
CH11?
Doctors. Sexual terminology used to describe his actions, while he offers to impregnate her.
CH12?
past a bit - looking back at Luke. Some aunt lyds
Luke’s insensitivity - buying steaks to appear more masculine.
Lydia - ‘worthy vessel’
‘My self is a thing i must _________’
‘Compose… as one composes a speech
what is a speech? - something to be delivered to others, to be presented to please someone, to be constructed to fit others. ‘my self’, splitting ‘myself’ as though an image of her dissociating herself
‘Don’t want to look at something that………..’
Determines me so completely
- naked body