His parents, whose marriage was arranged, may appear an odd couple (their quarrels recur in his fiction) but "they still love each other, despite their personal differences.
Short story about the writer's relationship with her late mother in Ireland, describing letters her mother sent her over the years, after a distancing quarrel about her failed marriage... Describes a recurring dream about seeing her mother's reflection in a razor.
By Edna O'Brien The New Yorker, March 20, 2000 P. 116 Short story about the writer's relationship with her late mother in Ireland, describing letters her mother sent her over the years, after a distancing quarrel about her failed marriage... Describes a recurring dream about seeing her mother's reflection in a razor..
He is to be relished as much for the skill with which he deploys a recurring expletive - "ah hoo boy" - as he is for his set-pieces (the beautifully orchestrated lovers' quarrels, for example); and if one hesitates to quote his wisecracks, it is only because the best of them depend so much on context and timing for their full effect.
(Metzger, 1987 [1936]: 42) … not speak about the quarrel about innate ideas, not about the opposition of rationalism and empiricism, not about the constantly recurring dispute about idealism and realism, not about the Kantian critique, not about the evolutionary hypotheses, not about causality, time, space, … we do not talk about the many theories of scientific knowledge.
So conflict, it was a recurring, recurring, recurring.
A recurring sporting tragedy.
The recurring shameful need?
