Draw the curtain back for Venus

emma de los nardos: Christopher's account of his relations with Sylvia and Valentine -- from No More Parades, Part I, Ch. iii

It was difficult to get his mind back to that night. You cannot force your mind to a deliberate, consecutive recollection unless you are in the mood; then it will do whether you want it to or not…He had had then, three months or so ago, a very painful morning with his wife, the pain coming from…

There have been many fascinating discussions about Christopher, and his relationships with Valentine and Sylvia. Here we see what Christopher himself thinks about the whole thing, and how he tries to make some sense of it.

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    Oh, man… reading this makes me feel even more sorry for the poor bastard.
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    First I just want to say how much reading all of your [plural’s] discussion of Parade’s End (both books and miniseries)...
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    Everything you’re talking about here, Emma, brings to mind Ovid’s Amores 1.9. I’ll just quote the last lines but the...
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    In referring to himself as a sort of Hamlet, Christopher is blaming himself for his own past indecisiveness, for his...
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    And we’re seeing Christopher evolve. Famously, in the first book: “As Tietjens saw the world, you didn’t ‘talk’. Perhaps...
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    Regarding Valentine: “Neither Miss Wannop nor myself being persons to talk about the state of our feelings, we exchanged...
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    There have been many fascinating discussions about Christopher, and his relationships with Valentine and Sylvia. Here we...
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    It was difficult to get his mind back to that night. You cannot force your mind to a deliberate, consecutive...
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