After Dombey and Son i read a best-seller, Lessons in Chemistry. It was engaging, but to me problematic. One can easily read both the chemists who are a couple (the husband gets killed early on) as autistic. But the rest of the story (the wife goes on to national success as a TV chef, this in the early 60s) is more (feminist-charged) fantasy than realistic (& not as funny as it thinks it is). The truth is, speaking one's mind with brutal candor is not something tolerated by the neurotypical majority. A perfect case is Simone Weil, who never minced words from her earliest childhood (she even pissed off the Marxists) & only became published & respectable after her lonely death. Maybe i'm reading too much into this bagatelle...soon to be a miniseries with Brie Larson (AKA "Captain Marvel").
age of fire & gravel
smattering of words
gold & cerulean moods
in this plush hovel
guest of the abstract ixodids
age of gravel & fire
& short blunt words
rotten to the core
ploughshares to swords
when poll day comes to dredge the sewer
count what an imbecile wind
sifts through orange fingers
on Lakeside sundry daggers
no oaths defend
rich hues back to soil returned
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