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I'd forgotten what had prompted me to post this on Cohost in May 2024. Couldn't Recall
October 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Do we think he read The Fall of Valor?
John and Ethel Grandin’s marriage has drifted far from its original happy start, and they now spend “scarcely a dozen evenings together a month.” He is obsessed with his books and writing, she has become increasingly bitter with his inattention and remembers fondly how their early lovemaking allowed her “for the first time in her life [to] come into her own: alive, aware, confident.” But with time and two children, “the pleasures of love soon turned into the solider pleasures of marriage.” On a vacation to Nantucket to reinvigorate their marriage, the Grandins meet Cliff Hauman and his new wife Billie, who are on their honeymoon. Cliff, a Marine captain, is “a giant, six-feet-two or -three, and heavily built: enormous shoulders, large head, blond curling hair, blue eyes—the athlete, the American idol, uninteresting.” For John it is obsession at first sight, and he begins to idealize Cliff—who looms in his mind as iconic, heroic masculinity—through his readings of Walt Whitman and A.E. Housman and emotionally compares him to Achilles, Hector, Jason, and Siegfried.
August 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I think it chose the gif because it's the only locally hosted image. wordpress.com/support/soci...
August 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM