The Exqusite Modesty of the Irish

[arisbe]

"There is no way that Michael would open the door of a woman's room," a neighbor told the inquest. "They wouldn't even watch the television if there was a woman on it. They were from a different era."

Thus the uncertainty about exactly when his sister died.

Comments

[mommybird.livejournal.com]

This reminds me disquietingly of the Faulkner story "A Rose for Emily". Eep.

[joffridus.livejournal.com]

what???

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Good title for a movie...

[theodora.livejournal.com]

My grandmother was from that era. My mother and father, nearly. But all of my contemporaries' folks, free-thinking hippies.

The communication gap engendered by this remains funny. But back when I was in my teens, its funny was Kafkaesque.