I still like the line, even though I cut it from my novel What’s Left:
Manoula, in the end, would become Penelope awaiting Baba’s return.
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Do you think a teenager would have uttered a sentence like that? Do you catch its classical reference? Or would you need to have it explained?
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Cassia’s roots included inspiration like this. Stairs in Patras, Greece, with view of Varasova mountain across the Gulf of Corinth. Photo by Jerome via Wikimedia Commons.
I post from a small seacoast city in northern New England, where I really do have a small barn packed with mementos of my lifetime journey from my native Ohio to the Pacific Northwest and then back east.
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3 thoughts on “One more throwaway line”
i’m going to resist the siren’s call and not voice an opinion.
i’m going to resist the siren’s call and not voice an opinion.
That’s the worst pun I’ve heard in a long time …
Thank you. And shame on those who didn’t get the reference.