![]() ![]() Her mind had been empty of understanding of the world, but in the company of queer gunslinger librarians who rejected the choices, the limits the world gave them and who looked at the laws and rules as though they were sticks of chewing gum that had long lost their taste and needed to be spat out-it begins to fill in, layer by layer. Esther then decides to run away to join the Librarians in the hope that the company of such “ chaste, morally upright women” would rid her of the wrongness inside her.īut Esther soon discovers how absurdly, ridiculously naïve she has been. ![]() Esther wonders, not for the first time, what reason it is to cling so stubbornly to her defiance when the current is pulling so hard in the other direction. When Esther Augustus witnesses the public hanging of her lover, Beatriz, for " deviance" and " the possession of unapproved materials”, the fire in her is smothered, and something else inside her stumbles to the edge of a precipice, falls off. ![]()
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