A7#9 on Mythryl: “even at 15, when I first read the book, I was appalled at the…”

even at 15, when I first read the book, I was appalled at the cruelty of manipulation, at that time and in that place, whatever her inner motivation for this was (and I was much more willing to grant her the assumption of good faith then than I am now)

Yelena Furman@yelenafurman.bsky.social

Irene's passive-aggressive parenting: after all the 🚫 on Fleur - "my most darling boy, don't think of me--think of yourself." And the poignancy: "All love and life, and joy, anxiety, and sorrow, all movement, light and beauty, but a beginning to this terrible white stillness." #ForsyteSaga26

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