Word: lodgers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the family takes in a lodger, he is appalled at the Baineses' isolation. He asks why there are no newspapers or radio. why the windows are always sealed and the doors bolted. "We're right inside ourselves," Mrs. Baines explains, "and nobody'll ever get in and pull us out." The lodger lures Joshua and Winifred out for walks, but they cannot wait to get back to punishing and being punished...
...there are occasional glimpses of their pathetic longing for a better life. For all his disgust, the lodger finds it difficult to leave this house, and so, implies Hanley. would anybody. For this is no unique madhouse; as Author Hanley sees it, it is the human condition...
...doesn't do to go against public opinion," an old friend whispers in Rade's ear, warning him that his fellow office workers are about to turn on him. His landlady talks in cipher to his fellow lodger, using "big, strong, black and forceful words, always heavy, coarse, masculine nouns, signifying something huge, strong and powerful, which reminded me of the whale." In horror he finds whales swimming into his own conversation-"a whale of a time," "the Prince of Wales." Martyrdom's Delusion. In this superb social satire, Erih Kos, himself a Yugoslav bureaucrat, dissects...