07-08-2012, 06:07 PM
Thanks, Leanne and Billy. It's not about wife-beating, in fact the slapped cheek belongs to the husband and his repeated offences are more emotional - disengagement, estrangement etc.I'm not sure about double jeopardy, either!I'll think on the colon after flame.
Just caught your post, Dale, thanks. I had in mind Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. A progression from plangent to imperative, an all too familiar direction.
If anyone can help on
language learnt to clutch and curve
him clear of double jeopardy.
what I really mean is that her words are intended to pull him back in the fold, out of himself, "he" is dreamy, idealistic, dissatisfied. She is merely dissatisfied.
Just caught your post, Dale, thanks. I had in mind Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. A progression from plangent to imperative, an all too familiar direction.
If anyone can help on
language learnt to clutch and curve
him clear of double jeopardy.
what I really mean is that her words are intended to pull him back in the fold, out of himself, "he" is dreamy, idealistic, dissatisfied. She is merely dissatisfied.
Before criticising a person, try walking a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticise them, you're a mile away.....and you have their shoes.