Comments on: The Mother of Nancy http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/02/01/the-mother-of-nancy/ Where our past is never very long ago Fri, 24 May 2013 20:47:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mina http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/02/01/the-mother-of-nancy/comment-page-1/#comment-194102 Mina Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:07:47 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=11830#comment-194102 Having been busy with many things lately, I’ve neglected Keepa. This story was a perfect one to come back to. Yes, I know its overwritten, but sometimes I find such writing soothing. I have a fondness for descriptions of gardens and clothing and this story’s turns of phrase (“the sunlight flamed on her orchid wool dress and fell in lighted arcs on the lace collar”) charmed me. I also think the emphasis on material description complements the story’s focus on emotion, it’s attempt to put into words “ineffables” like the “linking of hearts.”

I also come from a family of orphans, too, so maybe my heartstrings are extra tuggable? (My paternal grandmother and her brothers were raised at St. Ann’s orphanage–now the Kearns-St. Anns School–in Salt Lake.

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