ATD: unanswered questons

[Bekah]

And she's had her turn as long-suffering drama queen if not on  
celluloid.

" Once she had thought had chosen, together, to resist all penance at  
the hands of others. To
  reserve to themselves alone what lay ahead, the dark exceptional  
fate. Instead she was alone
with the sort of recurring dream a long-suffering movie heroine would  
expect to wake up from
to find herself pregnant at last."


Bekah

On Sep 15, 2008, at 3:01 AM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:

> "Still, there's lots of room to wiggle around in in that sentence."
>
> I think she's carrying. The two sentences before:
>
>      Once she had thought had chosen, together,
>      to resist all penance at the hands of others. To
>      reserve to themselves alone what lay ahead, the
>      dark exceptional fate. Instead...
>
> say, to me, that she will no longer have the choice of resisting
> "all penance." "Instead," because she is now alone, and,
> ironically as hell, pregnant, she's going to have to accept
> penance from some quarter- which might, given her
> nature, be a worse punishment than just being alone.
>
>