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On Jane Austen, Auden was great but wrong: You could not shock her more than she shocks me; Beside her Joyce seems innocent as grass.
On Jane Austen, Auden was great but wrong: **{:.break one} ** You could not shock her more than she shocks me; Beside her Joyce seems innocent as grass.
Just when we think we understand Maria — as a wayward, Brooklyn twenty-something in search of stability just like everyone else — she shocks us.
Katie is away on a conference in Leeds, surreptitiously sleeping with an acquaintance, when she shocks herself by asking her husband for a divorce on her cellphone.
And she's the sexual aggressor, too: in one breathtaking scene — considering that it's Hepburn — they neck for a bit, clinging tight, and she shocks him by casually preparing for him to stay the night.
Yet when the matter of custody arises, she shocks herself by invoking that which she most disparages, "the primitivism of the mother, her innate superiority, that voodoo in the face of which the mechanism of equal rights breaks down".
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