I resented it when Ja prevented me from getting a house help in the last seven years and now he flew into a rage because he said he was beginning to feel like a house help. I remember A.S. Byatt’s “Jesus in the House of Martha and Mary,” and then, I remember that story itself the way it was told in the Bible, and curiously felt like I was Mary for the first time in my life, talking to Jesus while Martha flew into a rage over the dishes. This is something new to me because all my life I have often felt like Martha, doing all the dishes while someone else like Ja do all the talking to Jesus. [Now, don't ask me, who is Jesus, here, it's Karl].
Being Mary for the first time makes me feel a bit giggly and happy for a change. Ja would kill me once he read this and realized he was being compared to Martha. [[Shhhh, it's Ja's birthday today so I better stop!]]
4 comments:
too bad i missed the bryatt's story, it's a couple story? but what i want to tell you is, you write best when you're murderously. i think that is the reason why the critic contemporaries of FO'C libeled her. ("the lady is mean.") (keep her away from the nurseries, momo said, giggly. i'd say i haven't read vw fully. but is that what she meant by her i-have-to-kill-someone ars poetica? whatever her failings, she left cues.
hi, shei, do you mean the whole project of killing women in glass cases, from the Virgin Mary down to Maria Clara? Again and again? And never succeeding?!
no. FOC doesnt do that does she, the lady is not a feminist. simply i mean what FOC herself meant: the kingdom of heaven is not heavenly and only the violent will bear it away
Thanks for sharing this post :)
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