Ortberg re Mary Renault
Tuesday, May 15th, 2018 09:20 amFrom Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s newsletter, The Shatner Chatner
https://www.shatnerchatner.com/p/how-to-tell-if-you-are-in-a-mary-renault-novel
Monday, May 14, 2018 How To Tell If You Are In A Mary Renault Novel
Your mother is, you know, hoo boy.
It’s genuinely unclear to me if you have had sex with your best friend or not. Like, there was a scene where you two were laying down together, and then in the next scene there’s a throwaway line about how the light has changed, and several paragraphs earlier there’s a bit that only makes sense if you two are now understood as having established a sexual relationship, but no one ever mentions it again, and it seems to require a time jump in order to work in the narrative?
You have gray eyes because you are a good person.
and much more. Nails it, as usual.
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Date: 2018-05-15 04:23 pm (UTC)Yup, nailed it.
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Date: 2018-05-15 04:48 pm (UTC)Nice.
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Date: 2018-05-15 05:06 pm (UTC)(I've only read two Renault books, which was not a large enough sample for me to see the mothers thing.)
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Date: 2018-05-15 07:17 pm (UTC)Never seen a better summary of the Alexander/Hephaestion relationship. On the nose.