ouinon
chemical reaction
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 Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 4:39 pm Post subject: *"Invitation to the Waltz" Rosamond Lehmann"* |
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Wow, just read "Invitation to the Waltz" by Lehmann, who i had only vaguely heard of before. I love it.
Has anybody else read it? It is so exact about social difficulty, about social hypocrisy, about social manoevrings, posturings. And her heroine so sensitive, so painfully sensitive to "little" social cruelties/abuse, to dynamics which seem invisible to most. And her experience of exclusion, of somehow not quite knowing how to do/get it right, and of being unable to say what she means/thinks/feels whenever deafened by the false/fake, etc.
Her permeability.
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