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5 - Duets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2011

John L. Locke
John L. Locke
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City University of New York
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Both she and her daughter then leaned towards Martha, smiling with warm friendship, and proceeded to tell her how happy they were that Douggie was married at last, how wonderful, how suitable, how . . . As one woman arrived at the end of a breathless phrase, searching for the superlatives that could not express what she felt, the other took it up; it was a duet of self-immolation . . .

doris lessing, A proper marriage

In Le Caquet des Femmes (The Chatter of Women, see Figure 5.1), an ancient woodcut, one sees a working village that is somewhere, and everywhere, in mid sixteenth-century France. Because a few of the exterior walls were chiseled away, it is also possible to see inside some of the buildings.

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Duels and Duets
Why Men and Women Talk So Differently
 , pp. 102 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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  • Duets
  • John L. Locke, City University of New York
  • Book: Duels and Duets
  • Online publication: 07 September 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511993404.005
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  • Duets
  • John L. Locke, City University of New York
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  • Duets
  • John L. Locke, City University of New York
  • Book: Duels and Duets
  • Online publication: 07 September 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511993404.005
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