If she knows that, yes, she knows our relation must have involved your writing to me."
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@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialIf she knows that, yes, she knows our relation must have involved your writing to me."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"All the while she and I here were growing intimate, you and I were in unmentioned relation?
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialShe came straight to his aid, formulating for him his anxiety, though quite to smooth it down.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialIf our friend knows that all the while—?"
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"There's something you must definitely tell me.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialHe could make out by this light something of what he saw, but a dimness also there was, undispelled since his return.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialHe had dropped a little in presence of the explanation; then she had brought him up to a sort of recognition.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialShe put it to him before they joined—as was high time—the others.
@pecqueuxanthony.bsky.social#HenryJames #Fiction 🧶 n° 2
Henry James dans cette conférence commence par s'insurger contre la tendance de l'auteur à marquer la feinte fictionnelle à destination de son lecteur, le faire-semblant que constitue la fiction (par exemple par un commentaire explicite entre parenthèses)
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@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"You do then see your way?"
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialStill she had a distance to go.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialShe had come back to another, which was one of her own; her own were so closely connected that Densher's were at best but parenthetic.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialShe smiled, but he saw her the next instant as smiling through tears; and the instant after this she had got, in respect to the particular point, quite off.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"So you think you'll kill *me* in time to prevent it?"
@pecqueuxanthony.bsky.social#HenryJames #Fiction Dans les posts sous ce #HEF je regrettais l'absence de traduction pour 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (1884), la conférence d'Henry James en défense du roman comme un des beaux-arts: patate suis-je, elle existe bien sûr!
& une copine a trouvé cette vieillerie introuvable - hourra!
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@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialShe looked at him a minute with no response but her eyes.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.socialIt would kill me."
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"Don't fail me.
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"Don't what?"
@thatiliazdguy.bsky.social"See here, you know: don't, *don't*—!"