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Friday, November 1, 2019

Goines On: The birds must wait

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Goines hasn’t put out the bird feeders, and the sun is shining brightly after a Halloween night of thunderous downpour. It is already 8 o’clock and Goines is just serving his wife breakfast and about to have his own. He shaved and showered after getting out of bed, too tired to do either the evening before, after nodding off in the afternoon trying to read again the passage in Jane Eyre in which she goes into the room with the fortune teller, and nodding off several times in the evening trying to watch another episode of Goliath about the disastrous water situation in Southern California and the second episode of Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens’ 2006 dramatization of Jane Eyre, in which the fortune teller is not Rochester in disquise (he’s just hiding around the corner). Uncharacteristically, Goines decided to go ahead and eat his own food before letting the birds have theirs. Sometimes he had to look after himself first, and let others wait. He thought he could forgive himself, and the birds would have to.

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Posted by Moristotle at 11/01/2019 04:00:00 PM
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2 comments:

  1. Roger OwensSaturday, November 2, 2019 at 5:33:00 PM EDT

    Any good literary analysis would include "Is Goines a moral man?" I offer the fact that Goines thinks deeply enough to normally give the birds their breakfast before he gets his own proof of his morality. That he does not always do it is proof he is not bound by convention, even his own.

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  2. MoristotleSaturday, November 2, 2019 at 9:20:00 PM EDT

    Bless you, Reader Roger, as good a reader as any Goines could hope to have!

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