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'You're rotting now.' Strong, silent men are not much use in competing with immigrant salesmen or on TV talk shows.
Five silent men sit (pose: macho; legs wide apart, feet planted squarely to the floor) on leather sofas adjacent to assorted pot plants.
A visit to her childhood home leads her into the story of her marriage to Robert, one of the book's many silent men.
I could see the abandoned dinner tables and the stone sculleries, the muddy boots on the doormat, the piles of newly opened letters on the sideboard, the silent men sitting in worn armchairs in the kitchen, watching television.
Soon, one of those formerly silent men is telling the other that before he met him, he was ashamed of his desires; now he sees "that the world was wrong — that what I felt was honest and pure and good".
But I would imagine that for the conspicuously silent men in black robes in the front row, who study and teach in this building, it is also a little terrifying.
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He became a very silent man," Oksanen says.
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