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Black MilkStrangely enough, the novel ended up having more impact on him than on his wife or daughters. He went through a moral torment, the first of many, which would end up paving the way for a very different sort of existential crisis-one that would strike at the very essence of his marriage. No matter how we interpret the events that followed, this much is true: Sophia never saw Anna as a role model, positive or negative. The fictional character who wore dark lilac, who wished to be like a happy heroine in an English novel, who worked on a childrenБЂ™s book and who smoked opium-although similar in some ways to Sophia-was clearly not her. Despite the concerns her husband harbored, she never abandoned him or loved another man. On the contrary, she remained attached-perhaps too attached-to her husband and to her family, until it drove her over the edge. Every year a new baby came, and with every child Sophia turned a bit more irritable and their marriage took another blow. A day would not pass without an argument erupting within the house, the husbandБЂ™s and wifeБЂ™s energies drained by petty squabbles no bigger than a speck of dust ...» |
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