![]() ![]() Those were lost on my younger self, who sensed there was something there but lacked the ability to crack the code. I also understand a lot more of the emotional subtleties this time around, the nuances and subtexts that Sayers hints at but does not spell out for the reader, the things left unsaid that she expects you to fill in. ![]() I still am in awe of the way both she and Peter throw around quotations, though now I recognize that I do the same thing, it’s just that I’m not familiar with the body of literature they are quoting from so it still has some of that very exotic and mysteriously intellectual mystique that it had for me when I was younger. Now I understand so much more clearly the questions about marriage and the intellectual life that Harriet Vane struggles with and they feel much more urgent and personal. I haven’t read Gaudy Night in probably a decade and it feels very different now than it did when I was a young adult. ![]() ![]() So I snapped it up and then having it right there and having a friend who started sharing quotes on Facebook was all the shove I needed to impel me to a re-read. My friend Nicole, who had never read any Sayers and to whom I had recommended Gaudy Night, noticed that the Kindle version was on sale for just $1.99. Photo by Zxb – Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 2.0 at, Link ![]()
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