8/02/2008 06:02:00 PM
Been reading a book by Julian Barnes, titled ‘The Lemon Table’, unfolding an affair b/w 2 individuals bounded by marital responsibilities. Below, a short but witty excerpt that sheds light on the nature of tittle-tattle:
Gossip noted that Mrs. Lindwall had not kept her rendezvous with Anders Boden. Gossip suggested there had been a quarrel. Gossip counter-suggested that they had decided on concealment. Gossip wondered if a sawmill manager lucky enough to be married to a woman who owned a piano imported from Germany would really allow his eye to stray to the unexceptional wife of the pharmacist. Gossip replied that Anders Boden had always been an oaf with sawdust in his hair, and that he was merely seeking out a woman of his own class, as oafs are wont to do. Gossip added that marital relations had not been resumed in the Boden household since the birth of their second child. Gossip briefly wondered if gossip had invented the whole story, but gossip decided that the worst interpretation of events was usually the safest and, in the end, the truest.
Of cos, the counter-effect of it all’s that I brought it up.
Study hard for chem, and enjoy the wkend =)
Clement
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