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‘I like that I’m a woman who can still / be curious when she turns a corner.’
- Margot Kahn
'I am committed to never retiring from being myself.'
- Borrowed from someone, in a meeting
- #rachelcusktogether Reminded of the ending of Kudos when I went to this exhibition by Marguerite Homer at Clare Hall, Cambridge - 'All of your demons will wither away'. Paintings of the Pacific. 1 Into the light 2 Sit down next to me 3 Follow me now 4 Soleil pour over me
- #rachelcusktogether That man on the beach at the end could be the neighbour from Outline. Not sure what to make of the ending but it's not warm and fuzzy for sure. Now I've gotta read more about Rachel Cusk. Somehow I don't feel I'd like her.
- #rachelcusktogether 'You can't tell your story to everybody....Maybe you can only tell it to one person.' All the characters in the Outline trilogy pour out their stories to everyone it would seem. Does Faye tell hers to anyone?
- Gentileschi, 'Salome with the head of John the Baptist' #rachelcusktogether 'My older son had once made a copy of that painting...except that he had left out all the detail...without those details...the painting became a study not of murderousness but of the complexity of love.' Not convinced!
- #rachelcusktogether Felicia's story: 'I had not...found freedom by leaving him: in fact what I had done was forfeit all my rights...there is a passage in one of your books [Fay's]...where you describe enduring something similar...you...legitimised...by writing...I by' translating
- #rachelcusktogether I don't know why but this picture by Kate Lycett makes me think of the urban landscapes in some of the Outline trilogy. Maybe it's just me, I think it's all the angles and curves...
- #rachelcusktogether The destroyed church that has been left as it is is like an Outline remaining after the trauma - kind of like Fay. 'lights had been installed which illuminated the empty spaces...making you see more in the empty space than you would have seen had it been filled with a statue.'
