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Lady to Lockup. Of Cary's novels, Herself Surprised, first issued in 1941, is the third to be published in the U.S. Each of these three shows him to advantage in a different vein. The Moonlight is a darkly limned, Hardyesque story of conflicting generations in modern England; The African Witch is an authentic description of life in an African town. Herself Surprised is written in what is probably Cary's most congenial mode: the humorous picaresque in which a roguish heroine recalls, with tongue-in-cheek moralizing, the dubious deeds of her past...
Nora didn't want to settle for a magnolia & moonlight life on her father's Mississippi plantation. Her discontent spilled over: "Sometimes I wish I were a nigger or an Indian or anything that would keep me from having to be myself, Nora Potter, who goes to parties and pays calls, and sits by quietly, with nothing to say, while Mama does all the talking." Mama really talked incessantly, but now that Nora was up North, she too found her tongue, and ended by talking too much. She told her cousin Austin King, who was already married, that...
When cats are maddened in the moonlight dance...
...Europe once before, full of Beethoven concertos. When she was unable to play his favorite Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms, he had muttered "All your schoolin's bin wasted." This time, in Boulder's city hall, she gave them, among other things, Liebestraum, the "Moonlight...
...first met, since neither spoke the other's language, they communicated by simply saying, "Petite marmite!" Dali went on: "Every time that this same idea mysteriously put our two souls in communication, one or the other of us ... would pronounce the magic phrase, 'Petite Marmite!' ... On moonlight nights we used to ... visit a gigantic spider. . . . From time to time I get a telegram which says 'Spider,' and I wire right back, 'Petite Marmite.' Then I usually get another wire . . . with just the word 'Petite.' And thus our friendship goes on, forever...