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The Dank Side of the Moon
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Here is a link to the story for anyone interested:
http://members.multimania.co.uk/shor...enironing.html I stand here ironing, and what you asked me moves tormented back and forth with the iron. “I wish you would manage the time to come in and talk with me about your daughter. I’m sure you can help me understand her. She’s a youngster who needs help and whom I’m deeply interested in helping.” “Who needs help.” — Even if I came, what good would it do? You think because I am her mother I have a key, or that in some way you could use me as a key? She has lived for nineteen years. There is all that life that has happened outside of me, beyond me. And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? I will start and there will be an interruption and I will have to gather it all together again. Or I will become engulfed with all I did or did not do, with what should have been and what cannot be helped.... Rest above. Here are the "themes" from wikipedia: The story is about motherhood and mother-daughter relationships. It is also about the various influences that shape a developing child. It is also about the difficulties faced by working-class women in the U.S. in the 1930s, when the economy collapsed. The story explores the extent to which the mother can be held responsible for her daughter's problems, and suggests that society must also take some responsibility for forcing a young, single mother into an impossible situation, and then providing her with bad guidance (for example, Emily's mother does not want to send her away to a sanatorium, but the medical profession/social workers insist it would be better for the child.) The story suggests that "the experts" were wrong, but the mother did not feel confident enough about her own instincts to dare to challenge them. Sounds like nuclear war to me. ![]() Last edited by kennyc; 04-21-2011 at 09:53 PM. |
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#29897 |
ZCD BombShel
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Thanks, Kenny... LOL
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#29898 |
Bah, humbug!
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Got the lawn tractor out this week and it has two flat tires. I couldn't find replacement wheels in the local hardware stores, and Sears wants $208 for an exact replacement for the rear wheel. So I took the wheels off, and tomorrow I'll go to the John Deere shop with my wife and get two new innertubes and perhaps a rear tire. A lot cheaper than replacing the wheels. I have the misfortune to have a discontinued model, and the generic wheels sold nearly everywhere (about $30 for front and $50+ for the rear) won't work on mine.
In the meantime, I replaced the pool pump only to discover that the hose from the pump to the filter is leaking, and since it's an older model filter, I'm having a devil of a time finding a replacement hose. This summer is off to a rousing start. On the plus side, my ex-DIL has volunteered to take over the garden. |
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#29899 |
The Dank Side of the Moon
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#29900 |
Bah, humbug!
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They'll be her problem.
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I'm watching you!
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#29902 |
Home for the moment
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#29903 |
Canucklehead in Malaysia
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Did someone say SEX ??? Oh never mind, it was just NUTELLA
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#29904 |
I'm watching you!
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Mr Nutella died the other day.
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Canucklehead in Malaysia
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Err? ?He did?
Oh man, you sure know how to ruin a joke! He died while cycling, he was only 47 (wish I had read that before my comment, talk about negative Karma) |
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Canucklehead in Malaysia
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That sounded just like my wife, saying no but giving the slightest hint of possibility later, women!
![]() (EDIT: After rereading this post, I would like to be sure that everyone knows that I was not suggesting the DD was making any promises or that there were any possibilities of her offering anything more than Nutella shared via the internet!) |
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#29910 |
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nutella spread on something long and hard, maybe?....like...like celery o_o
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