[ It comes out more icy than he means for it to, more honest. But it's truthful too. Some days, he doesn't know why he's still here in this little place where everyone knows everyone, where the entire world seems to know of his father's shame, where he cannot escape the reputation dogging at his heels. Everything here is so small, so without ambition. So why is he still here?
Perhaps because he and Marianne aren't so different at the end of the day. They're both afraid of what lies beyond their little worlds, and have responded to it in very different ways. But at least Claude can look unflinchingly in the mirror and admit he's a coward, he thinks to himself, instead of surrounding himself with convenient lies. ]
Chasing that vision would be different. I refuse to believe that all that was was emptiness. I'd think that you of all people would be sympathetic to the idea that everything is happening as it is for a reason.
[ Which is to say: yes. Yes, he's unhappy. But that's neither here nor there. ]
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[ It comes out more icy than he means for it to, more honest. But it's truthful too. Some days, he doesn't know why he's still here in this little place where everyone knows everyone, where the entire world seems to know of his father's shame, where he cannot escape the reputation dogging at his heels. Everything here is so small, so without ambition. So why is he still here?
Perhaps because he and Marianne aren't so different at the end of the day. They're both afraid of what lies beyond their little worlds, and have responded to it in very different ways. But at least Claude can look unflinchingly in the mirror and admit he's a coward, he thinks to himself, instead of surrounding himself with convenient lies. ]
Chasing that vision would be different. I refuse to believe that all that was was emptiness. I'd think that you of all people would be sympathetic to the idea that everything is happening as it is for a reason.
[ Which is to say: yes. Yes, he's unhappy. But that's neither here nor there.
]