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#rachelcusktogether Cusk on 'A Life's work': '"If everyone were to read this book,...the propagation of the human race would virtually cease, which would be a shame." The reviewer was a woman. I had met her, in fact, at some literary festival or other years before. She had seemed harmless enough.'
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V interested in Cusk's approach to autobiog & fiction: 'Whom does Cusk expose in the process of shielding herself? ... her travel book, The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy (2009), was pulped after someone she wrote about launched a breach of privacy suit.' Sydney review of bks
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The animals are still with me. I dreamed my cat, who went missing for 13 months, jumped out of the back of the car, walked across a busy road nearly getting run over by a vehicle towing a wagon; I followed, she crossed back as did I. She suddenly picked up speed, & tore away.
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Reminded of the ending of Kudos when I went to this exhibition by Marguerite Homer at Clare Hall, Cambridge - 'All of your demons will wither away'. Paintings of the Pacific. 1 Into the light 2 Sit down next to me 3 Follow me now 4 Soleil pour over me
Against ‘Women’s Writing’ — Andrea Long Chu review.
Here is another review for the group…
Thank you all for your comments about #rachelcusktogether along the way — truly the only reason I stayed with the trilogy. Looking forward to our next read together!
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It's a dark final note--his "malevolent delight" and "cruel, merry eyes." Faye is going to wait him out. She has only patience to pit against this "resplendent and grinning" terrible "deity." What is she doing swimming alone on this particular beach? #rachelcusktogether
I find that last scene on the beach unnerving. The first time I read the books, I was mystified by it. Now the man who (I think) menaces her at the very end seems in keeping with the stories we hear of ex-husbands determined to wield power. #rachelcusktogether
last day!
Day 125, Feb 2, Mon - p226 to THE END
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THANK YOU everyone for reading along.
We will be starting #SatanTangoTogether either U.S. valentine's day feb 14 or march 1 depending on the people's schedules! what's your vote?
“She got up and went away
Should she not have? Not have what?
Got up and gone away.
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@literaturesc.bsky.social and #RachelCuskTogether friends: A challenging reading … thank you for your posting — a source of great enlightenment to me. 😊
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That man on the beach at the end could be the neighbour from Outline. Not sure what to make of the ending but it's not warm and fuzzy for sure.
Now I've gotta read more about Rachel Cusk. Somehow I don't feel I'd like her.
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'You can't tell your story to everybody....Maybe you can only tell it to one person.'
All the characters in the Outline trilogy pour out their stories to everyone it would seem. Does Faye tell hers to anyone?
Gentileschi, 'Salome with the head of John the Baptist'
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'My older son had once made a copy of that painting...except that he had left out all the detail...without those details...the painting became a study not of murderousness but of the complexity of love.'
Not convinced!
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Felicia's story: 'I had not...found freedom by leaving him: in fact what I had done was forfeit all my rights...there is a passage in one of your books [Fay's]...where you describe enduring something similar...you...legitimised...by writing...I by' translating
penultimate day!
Day 124, Feb 1, Sun - p220 “I did, however, receive another call…” to p226 WHITE SPACE “…to live as an outlaw.”
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I don't know why but this picture by Kate Lycett makes me think of the urban landscapes in some of the Outline trilogy. Maybe it's just me, I think it's all the angles and curves...
"...the fire...left everywhere a patina of its own in which one believes one can glimpse ghostly images." I love Paola's description of the church. I guess actually taking us into it would have been anticlimactic after that. Hmm. Instead, Faye nearly faints in the heat. #rachelcusktogether
Day 123, Jan 31, Sat - p214 “After the heat and light of outside…” to p220 “…the call didn’t come.”
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Couldn't help it. I read straight to the end! The leader abandons his army (or scouts ahead to the next read???)
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The destroyed church that has been left as it is is like an Outline remaining after the trauma - kind of like Fay.
'lights had been installed which illuminated the empty spaces...making you see more in the empty space than you would have seen had it been filled with a statue.'
These lights, she said, had the strange effect of making you see more in the empty space than you would have seen had it been filled with a statue. 213
#Rachelcusktogether #Kudos Niche & in life. Need those "empty" moments in these hectic, screen-filled days.
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Day 122, Jan 30, Fri - p210 “We had been walking downhill…” to p214 WHITE SPACE “…I heard Paola say.”
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'But you...don't belong anywhere, and so you are free to go wherever you choose.'
Interesting relationship of freedom and belonging.
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'it is with the feeling of displacement itself that the true intimacy develops & that constitutes, as it were, the story'
The story of Outline, Transit, Kudos.
'the owner of such a compass puts all his faith in it...goes where it tells him...despite appearances...'
p 203 the key
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'a word...hard to translate but that could be summed up as a feeling of homesickness even when you were at home'
'solastalgia...coined by Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht'...1/2
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Fay, the narrator, finally speaks...about 'the true nature of freedom. [Her son] understood that he had given some of his freedom away, through a desire to avoid or alleviate his own suffering'. Interesting to explore the relationship of freedom & suffering.
Cusk’s wonderful phrase “mournful acquiescence” is something I can increasingly relate to while also trying to avoid letting it cause inaction or apathy. Enjoying the language of this series as much as ever as we barrel to the end. (And looking forward to Satantango!) #rachelcusktogether
"In doing so, Cusk not only joined the “autofiction” avant garde of Karl Ove Knausgaard and Sheila Heti but solved many problems particular to her own writing."
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Day 121, Jan 29, Thur - p203 “‘Where is he now,’ the journalist said…” to p210 “…demands to be left alone.”
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Imagine your pet name for your spouse is the Buccaneer!
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loads of individual freedom is a trap. i prefer the evolving rules of a relationship, navigating them and figuring out what works or doesn't!
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