What did you make of this one in the "nettles"?
The narrator describes the kiss as more a matter of survival than their "bodies' inclinations."
And yet she has been desiring him heatedly before then: a pounding heart, lust with "shooting pains."
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I loved the way she described their wet lips sliding across each other.
I didn't know what to make of this kiss. It was strange to me. After all that build-up of lust, the narrator seems fairly unaffected by the kiss.
I loved that description, too! And how she talks about the night's lust turning into a controlled pilot flame during the day. She describes the diminished passion specifically as something "wifely," which reminded me of the war game they played as kids, where she and the other girls looked after the wounded boys in a wifely manner.
Yes! And I liked how she felt captivated by the idea of being his wife, as though she had never been a wife before.
I got the impression that the lust she felt the night before was tempered somewhat in his actual presence, like the memory of her more innocent love for him made their time together on the golf course less about sex and more about that wonderful, pure first-love feeling. A deep admiration with extra butterflies.
I also got the impression she felt caddying for him was like playing nurse to his wounded warrior from his childhood days.
Sorry, kc, that resembles what you said.
I think this may be a moment where we are supposed to see beyond the narrator's viewpoint. She can only handle experiencing and describing the kiss as a warm comfort when (I think) it truly meant more to each of them than that.
(Sorry, but I keep thinking of Erin's big long lust for Steve,as related in her diary — oh man, Alice Munro would dig your diary, hon — and then when they finally kissed she was surprised at how little it moved her).
(sorry if that's making it too personal, E)
That's OK. I kind of thought of that, too.
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