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Seventeen
What wisdom do you want from a death-marked girl? I can say only this: In the end I
learned that the water was in me. It was a ghost that could not be exorcised. But a guest,
even uninvited, must be attended to. You make up a bed for them. You pour from your
best bottle of wine. If you can learn to love that which despises you, that which terrifies
you, you can dance on the shore and play in the waves again, like you did when you were
young. Before the ocean is friend or foe1, it simply is. And so are you.
From Angharad by Angharad Myrddin (née Blackmar), 191 AD
It took some time, of course, for Effy and Preston to compile and index the letters, to copy the
pages of Angharad’s diary using the wheezing2 mimeograph in Laleston, and for Preston to write it
all up on the old typewriter that Laleston’s chief librarian grudgingly3 permitted them to use. They
had spent two weeks in Laleston, and had now been away from Caer-Isel more than a month.
Preston had a cigarette in his mouth while he worked, smoke curling out the window of their
hotel room. Sometimes he got up to pace, mussing his already mussed hair, muttering about
omniscient4 narration5 and melodrama6. Effy understood all the theory only vaguely7, but she offered
insight where she could.
She felt, as did Preston, that she understood Angharad on a level that was almost inarticulable:
it was as primal8 and unconscious as her lungs pumping and her heart beating.
“Why don’t you take a break?” Effy offered as she perched on the edge of the hotel bed, mug
of coffee in hand. “I can write for a while.”
“You don’t have to.” He had told her, at the beginning, that he thought it might be difficult for
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ad.明显地,惹人注目地 | |
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