5 - Duets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
Summary
Both she and her daughter then leaned towards Martha, smiling with warm friendship, and proceeded to tell her how happy they were that Douggie was married at last, how wonderful, how suitable, how . . . As one woman arrived at the end of a breathless phrase, searching for the superlatives that could not express what she felt, the other took it up; it was a duet of self-immolation . . .
doris lessing, A proper marriageIn Le Caquet des Femmes (The Chatter of Women, see Figure 5.1), an ancient woodcut, one sees a working village that is somewhere, and everywhere, in mid sixteenth-century France. Because a few of the exterior walls were chiseled away, it is also possible to see inside some of the buildings.
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- Duels and DuetsWhy Men and Women Talk So Differently, pp. 102 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011