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Sometimes Mary would talk of her plans for the future while Stephen listened, smiling as she did so.
‘I’ll go into an office, I want to be free.’
‘You’re so little, you’d get mislaid in an office.’
‘I’m five foot five!’
'Are you really, Mary? You feel little somehow.’
'That’s because you’re so tall. I do wish I could grow a bit!’
‘No, don’t wish that, you’re all right as you are — it’s you, Mary.’

-Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

Still working my way through The Well of Loneliness, still crying at Puddle, and so very excited about flirtatious!Stephen. (It's also reassuring for my own forays into early century writing, because this...is a flirtatious conversation I myself have had more than one time. As I suspect most of us have. Should I get new banter? Ehhhh.)

whisperspace about formatting )

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‘…Let’s go for a really long walk, shall we, dear? I’ve been wanting a really long walk now for weeks.’
Liar — most kind and self-sacrificing liar! Puddle hated long walks, especially with Stephen who strode as though wearing seven league boots and whose only idea of a country walk was to take her own line across ditches and hedges — yes, indeed, a most kind and self-sacrificing liar!

The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall

I emote everywhere every single time Puddle enters the narrative (on name alone, among other reasons), and I actually laughed at loud here. Just imagine the sigh you'd heave trying to connect to a 21 year old who thinks nobody understands them! It's a glorious little bit, her self-sacrificing grumbling walking, if wistful—the scene just proceeding is Puddle ruminating on the conspiracy of silence :( One of my narrative things is mentorship, and when I started Well earlier today I was not expecting to find it at all, really. Foolish me, since Part 1 and Part 2 are about, among other things, mentoring relationships succeeding and failing in so many different relationship structures! Is there fic, guys? Am I going to have to write "remembered Puddle/OFC"?

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