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It wasn't so much that she was prattling, saying just anything that came into her head; rather, that she was trying to express things that seemed to her interesting, or that might have been interesting if she could get them into shape.
The letter was pathetic, inconsequential, a child's report on a day out in Nice - "So you thought of us, dear St Crumpet, and we too thought so much of you" - but in its innocent prattle lay the source of Ruskin's pain, and all that followed from it.
Last week I spent a few days in the Deep South — a thousand miles from the moneyed canyons of Manhattan and the prattle of Washington politics — talking to everyday people, blue-collar workers, people not trying to win the future so much as survive the present.
She is all motherly con cern: she cares so much for her children's studies that she "provides them with 75‐watt light bulbs right there at their desks". Her eyes search the room for the nonexistent desks as she prattles on: the room is almost nothing but empty cartons and sagging bureaus; she sees the desks.
So much.
So much, so sparingly.
So much love, and so much hate.
"Not so much, maybe not so much.
So far, so much fun.
So much for so long.
So much for normality.
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