【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（6）
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“Amsterdam is MAD”, “Barcelona INSANE”, “Dublin ROCKS.
Sick as DOG this morning.“ As a travel writer, he was no Bruce Chatwin, but still she would
slip the postcards in the pocket of a heavy coat on long soulful walks on Ilkley Moor,
searching for some hidden meaning in “VENICE COMPLETELY FLOODED!!!!“.
Who‘s this Dexter then?‘ her mother asked, peering at the back of the postcards.“Your
boyfriend, is he?‘ Then, with a concerned look: “Have you ever thought about working for
the Gas Board?‘ Emma got a job pulling
pints1 in the local pub, and time passed, and she felt
her brain begin to
soften2 like something forgotten at the back of the fridge.
Then Gary Nutkin had phoned, the skinny Trotskyist who had directed her in a stark,
uncompromising production of Brecht‘s Fears and
Miseries3 of the Third Reich back in ‘86,
then kissed her for three stark, uncompromising hours at the last-night party. Shortly
afterwards he had taken her to a Peter Greenaway double-bill, waiting until four hours in
before reaching across and absent-mindedly placing his hand on her left breast as if adjusting
a dimmer switch. They made Brechtian love that evening in a stale single bed beneath a
poster for The Battle of Algiers, Gary taking care throughout to ensure that he was in no way
objectifying her. Then nothing, not a word, until that late-night phone-call in May, and the
hesitant words, softly spoken: “How would you like to join my theatre co-operative?‘”
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