The thing is, if she's like that, it may be because of a mixture of bad experiences (for instance, how did bath-flood-bloke respond to flooding her) and loneliness.
That said, given you lot are nice people, it does seem a bit off (to say the least) that she's so on edge at you.
But on the other hand... if she's only capable of communicating via letters under your door, there's clearly something deep down that's making her afraid; not of you lot in particular, but of actual confrontation or deconstruction of her own little world-view.
By the way, I remember hearing a comment about Joyce that went that good writing doesn't need punctuation or at least very little. I tend to use far too much and have actually descended into over-use of brackets - can you and verlaine help? ; )
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The thing is, if she's like that, it may be because of a mixture of bad experiences (for instance, how did bath-flood-bloke respond to flooding her) and loneliness.
That said, given you lot are nice people, it does seem a bit off (to say the least) that she's so on edge at you.
But on the other hand... if she's only capable of communicating via letters under your door, there's clearly something deep down that's making her afraid; not of you lot in particular, but of actual confrontation or deconstruction of her own little world-view.
By the way, I remember hearing a comment about Joyce that went that good writing doesn't need punctuation or at least very little. I tend to use far too much and have actually descended into over-use of brackets
- can you and