Impressions Supermarket Lady

turquoise blouse), I suddenly changed my mind. I wanted to give it to her as a present. I could always buy another necklace for Rachel, but this one suited Marina so perfectly that it already seemed to belong to her. At the same time, if I gave the impression that I was coming on to her (which I was, of course, but with no hope), she might have felt that I was putting her in an awkward position and refused to accept it. "No, no," I said. "Don't just hold it up. Put it on, so we can make sure it hangs

maître, avec les tendances contemporaines au rationalisme et au matérialisme, inéluctables à une époque qui ne consentait à tolérer aucune croyance dépourvue d'attributs scientifiques ou pseudoscientifiques. Un sermon pragmatique n'aurait pas fait impression ; l'analyse du processus social n'aurait retenu l'intérêt que de quelques centaines de spécialistes. Mais envelopper le sermon dans les formules de l'analyse et développer l'analyse en ne perdant jamais de vue les aspirations du cœur, telle a été

(cinema, most obviously) emerge to take their place. It may well be that the only helpful characteristic of Literature is the ability of some plays, poems and novels to stir a vital reaction, irrespective of when they were written. They create an impression of truth by reaching out, sometimes across the span of centuries, to touch our imagination and engage with our pre-occupations. The ‘truth’ we detect may not be the truth which the author intended, but that scarcely matters. It is now a truism that