THE QUICKSAND, a Short Story by Edith Wharton

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  • Опубліковано 28 лис 2024

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  • @emmahardesty4330
    @emmahardesty4330 5 місяців тому +15

    What an exquisite story. I've never before been impressed by Wharton. Several delectable quotes. If only all conversations between each of us could be as consistently honest.

  • @nilgiridreaming
    @nilgiridreaming 5 місяців тому +30

    ‘The girl’s mind was scantily furnished…’ What a phrase! Love it! 👌

    • @snowyowl6892
      @snowyowl6892 5 місяців тому

      … he gifted us with so many such phrases. …
      Wonderful 👍👍

    • @Nannas-cp5nd
      @Nannas-cp5nd 5 місяців тому +2

      You mean she gifted us,I suppose😅

    • @NickDiFroscia-s4y
      @NickDiFroscia-s4y 2 місяці тому

      I agree ❤😅.

  • @ropeburnsrussell
    @ropeburnsrussell 5 місяців тому +10

    What a sad story, but love is so often accompanied by heartache.
    I think the mother is correct.

  • @CarolWoodhouse-w2s
    @CarolWoodhouse-w2s 4 місяці тому +5

    Beautifully written. Beautifully read. Thank you

    • @suzicameron4860
      @suzicameron4860 2 місяці тому

      Surely this is a justification of greed over morals?

  • @davidmayhew8083
    @davidmayhew8083 5 місяців тому +5

    Such a beautiful rendition of a work of genius.

  • @Sassafras30
    @Sassafras30 5 місяців тому +7

    How sad to realise your child turned out to be your worst nightmare.

  • @Shineon83
    @Shineon83 4 місяці тому +7

    ….The mother is that rarest of women : Incapable of self-deception, she insists upon stripping all artifice and illusion from her personal biography, facing the often ugly truth-while taking personal responsibility for a share of that ugliness….
    I admire her character enormously.

  • @emilycorwith1119
    @emilycorwith1119 2 місяці тому

    What a brilliant timeless story!

  • @BlueButterfly-wk9dl
    @BlueButterfly-wk9dl 4 місяці тому +8

    A thousand thank yous for continuing to being the cause of the extremely restful end to my day

  • @marisaera2353
    @marisaera2353 Місяць тому

    Very interesting. Thank you.

  • @Universalhealing-bo3ir
    @Universalhealing-bo3ir 5 місяців тому +7

    BRILLIANT Timing 😉🌞🌻💜🌈

  • @helenwheels3341
    @helenwheels3341 5 місяців тому +6

    Young Miss dodged a bullet. Thanks mom 😅

  • @margo3367
    @margo3367 4 місяці тому +2

    I’m afraid I always felt marriage involved feelings of both mental and physical forms of constriction, such that I wasn’t even aware of feeling that way until I left and said, “Who am I?”

  • @dawnriddle-knowlton9932
    @dawnriddle-knowlton9932 5 місяців тому +2

    Thank you!! Another Edith Wharton!!

  • @boosqueezy2418
    @boosqueezy2418 5 місяців тому +1

    this is my favorite channel

  • @JanisJanus25
    @JanisJanus25 5 місяців тому +2

    Enjoyed that a lot

  • @suzicameron4860
    @suzicameron4860 2 місяці тому +1

    I wish we had readers again and not AI

  • @billdauphine951
    @billdauphine951 5 місяців тому +2

    It so good that I think I actually dislike these people (characters).

  • @mattneillninasmom
    @mattneillninasmom 5 місяців тому +1

    Afraid I've no patience for this stylized badinage.

    • @wendybryan6071
      @wendybryan6071 5 місяців тому +3

      The style reflects the era. There's other content you might prefer. F Scott Fitzgerald, Somerset Maugham, Joseph Conrad among others

    • @billdauphine951
      @billdauphine951 5 місяців тому +3

      I had to look up "badinage" 😂❤

    • @davidmayhew8083
      @davidmayhew8083 5 місяців тому +6

      Your use of the word "badinage" seems to contradict your attitude. Perhaps it's your persnikityness that blinds you to Wharton's beautiful and sad tale.

    • @EvelynTokamp
      @EvelynTokamp 5 місяців тому

      @@davidmayhew8083 Just looked up persnickety ... yet don´t understand why you used it in the given context ;)

    • @EvelynTokamp
      @EvelynTokamp 5 місяців тому +7

      @nattneillninasmom Badinage? I did not hear a single bit of badinage in this story, on the contrary ;)

  • @ThePattibeth
    @ThePattibeth 4 місяці тому

    Cant take any more badinage

  • @maconcamp472
    @maconcamp472 4 місяці тому +1

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    A purple sky would reflect the heart of the ocean!! An opened mind!! 🤯 The earth purring more!! Purrrrrple rain!!☔️ 🐈‍⬛ 🧶
    Each thought to me is a solar flare, which shifts us into parallel worlds!! It’s hard here!!! I’m a peaceful dude, yet my life here has been super difficult!!🥹
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    Are you and I sculpting together as a team or as individuals??? 🧑‍🎨 Using the moon as a tool!!! 🪨 The Sun is the eye!!👁️
    I love the tool/word grinder!!!😮 We’d be Bumping and Grinding!!😂
    The Earth is like a refrigerator and the atmospheric pressure is melting or defrosting the stars above, as if they’ve been in the freezer!! 🥶
    It would also reflect us krystalyzing and becoming diamonds in the sky!! 💎 💎💎 Lucy becomes Maisie!! 🐒 👽
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    Pass the doobie to the left hand side!!🇯🇲🍍
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    I know energy is still impurrtant!! 😻
    And of course imagination!!! Love!!!💗 🐶 🎾 🧶 🐈‍⬛
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    Everything and everyone has been our teacher!!👩‍🏫
    3D is like the murky bottom of a bong or volcano!!🌋 The fourth dimension, representing Mars is like the stem of the bong or the volcanos vent!! 👽 Experiencing higher dimensions is like the smoke or magma reaching our mouths 😋 and then circulating through our bodies!! We are the Earth!!🌍 👼
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    Our long winding road, exploring different dimensions, finally straightening out!! I’m getting Pee Wee vibes!! Large Marge sent me!!🚴😂
    We’re vaporized, as if we’ve been smoked or roasted!! 💨 The smoke representing again those compressed neutron stars climbing the higher dimensions of the universe like a chimney!! I’m Mary Poppins, y’all !! ☂️ 🧞‍♀️
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    Who me, I’m just a worm!!🐛 🫖 Solving a labyrinth!! 🦉 Solving amaze!!! 🦋
    Different energies tell a different story!! 📚
    We’re storytellers!! Artists!!🧑‍🎨
    We’re energy first!! 🐝
    A 12 inch boner is like receiving a foot of snow!!⛄️ 😂 When powered by neutrons and a magnetar energy field, one is like the energizer bunny!!🐰 They’ll keep going and going and going!! 🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇
    If you’re destined to have more than one twin flame, you’re like Frogger, playing leap frog!! Lucy is a sucker for Lillies!! 🐸 🍀 🐸 🍀 🐸🍀🐸🍀🐸
    G Force!!!🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳
    Dorothy’s Ruby red slippers!! ❤❤
    Something here in 3D land has to change, yes, mmmmm! Dark Crystal Series!!😍 🧚🏼
    We need to get this show rolling!! 🎥
    We need our second moon!! Two moons!!! Two Mercurys!! Two black holes!!🕳️ 🕳️ They’ll need some color!! 🌈
    Two blood moons!! 🩸 🩸
    Two Ruby red slippers!!🥿 🥿 We have to die and become reborn!! Dye!! Dye those slippers red!!😮❤❤😂
    Makes complete sense!! 🤯
    There’s no place like home!! Home is where the heart is!! Jupiter and the 5th dimension!! 🐸 🍀 Clover Field!!👽 🛸
    Time speeds up real fast once we’re there because seeing is definitely believing!! We get excited, hearts start pumping!! 💕 Minds start to open up!! 💜 Oxytocin pumping through our blood!! A love signature!! ✍️ Removing our writers block!! We’re storytellers!! 📚
    The two blood moons also like draculas fangs!! Or the fangs of a snake and spider!! A kundalini experience!!!🐍💜 An anti venom!! 🐜 A love bite!! I’m nibbling your ear!! Ringing your ears like church bells!! A liberty bell! 🔔 Heightening your spidey senses!!!🕷️😳🩸🩸
    My story just gets juicier!! 🍇 Sticky icky!! 🎄When is it juicy enough for you, I guess, is the question!! Strawberry Hill!! Cherry Blossoms!!🍒🍓We even got hills named after chocolate!!🍫
    Purrthquakes instead of Earthquakes!! 😻
    A Never Ending Story!! 🐺 ☁️ 🐌 ☁️ 📖
    “Still in love! Still in love with that dream!! 🏔️ 🏔️ 🦌 “
    Super Earth!! ⭐️ Superheroes!! ⭐️ Super pets!! ⭐️ Super foods!!⭐️ A place where everything is awesome!!🤩 A place where everyone is adorable!!🥰
    I’m a sighentist!!🙄 A souldier!!😇 A Glad I Ate Hers!!😋🥧 And most of all a Roarier for the universe!!🦁
    The Great Lakes represent the heart of the ocean coming together!! 🫀🌊 A huge manifestation!! 🐰 ⏰ 🍄 A microcosm of our oceans, which will someday become fresh!! 🔬 We’re sky people!! The planet our backyard!! An aquarium!! 🐠 An octopuses garden!!🪴 🐙
    Dinosaurs have played the role of our bacteria!! 🦠 They’re back!!! 🦕 🦟 Hold on to your butts!!! Everything is getting supersized!!🧑🏿‍🍳🍟🍔🥤
    When the Earth gets it two blood moons 🩸 🩸, it will represent us!!! Mostly centered around twin flames!!🥰🥰
    Like we’re children of the universe!! We’ll be cells too and it will be like we’re watching each other grow and evolve!!🦥🐾🦥🐾
    Our stars bursting here and there!! 💥 🎇 🎆
    A galaxy is a moon or seed exploding dramatically!! A eureka moment for sure!!
    If Yellowstone’s “Old Faithful” is an eye 👁️ , then when it blows 🌋 , that could be imagined as Gaia firing off photons, particles, or stars into the sky!!🌌
    The same as solar flares for the sun!!🌞
    So when the universe turns more lights on, especially when it comes to the Milky Way Center or that of a galaxy like Andromeda; it would represent these photons 👻 particles 🎇 or stars!!✨
    All coming from Gaia’s third eye!! 🌍 👼 🪽
    Old Faithful!! 🌋
    Moana!! 🌀
    Micro/macro!! 🔬 🔭 🪐 🧑‍🚀 ⭐️
    My cosmic perspective!! 🐼 🧪 ⚛️

  • @snowyowl6892
    @snowyowl6892 5 місяців тому +2

    Have realised that narrators must always read dispassionately ..
    this is an example of the opposite …
    That’s probably why male narrators are preferred.
    (the feminine

    • @fiddlersthree8463
      @fiddlersthree8463 5 місяців тому +3

      This is AI. Absolutely soulless

    • @davidmayhew8083
      @davidmayhew8083 5 місяців тому

      Poppycock! This narrator is so perfect for this that your gender bias proves you to be ridiculous.

    • @davidmayhew8083
      @davidmayhew8083 5 місяців тому +2

      ​@@fiddlersthree8463How do you know this? If this is AI, I'm all for it.

    • @clairegreenaway9653
      @clairegreenaway9653 5 місяців тому +2

      It’s free and a joy!

    • @helenwheels3341
      @helenwheels3341 5 місяців тому +2

      Preferred by men. Because? Well I think we know why 🤨