"... the impulse to kill him becomes so strong sometimes, when I think of the way he's stolen my life and trampled all over it and then thinks it's sufficient if he reads a few highbrow books, that I don't know how to get over it. I clench my fists together to keep from rushing at his greasy yellow head, or throwing something into that noisy mouth, forever boasting and screaming. If I could kill him and that child... I'd gladly do time for it. But what would the kids do? Go to an asylum? No one could stand it."
-Christina Stead The Man Who Loved Children
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A Woman at Work Refuses to Come to the Office for Team Meetings. You Will
Understand Why I’m Mad in a Second.
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It's creating headaches for everyone else.
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2 comments:
I need to re-read this book. It took me a while to see her as the heroine.
SarahJ-
I'm with you on that as well...
The writing is dark and mentally wrenching. One can't help but get the customary human reaction(s) before being able to take some deeper analysis and critique.
-shanti
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