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...trying to create a pseudo-European coffee house atmosphere," co-owner Paula Kelley explained. "This is an American coffee house. Actually, our place is more than a coffee house; it is a place where one can relax, meet friends, and listen to progressive jazz. We are not in business just to sell coffee...
Miss Kelley owns Mount Auburn 47 with her college classmate, Joyce Kalina. They met their senior year at Brandeis, where Joyce studied comparative literature and Paula medieval history. After graduation last year, Joyce went to New York to study acting, and Paula remained to work in Cambridge. Last October, Joyce returned to Cambridge. "Things were pretty dull," Paula related. "One evening we were sitting around, trying to think of something different to do. The idea of starting a coffee house was first a joke, but the next thing we knew we were in the business. I guess you could...
Crisis of Hate. At this crisis point, Robert falls in with his religious neighbors, the Gornacs. Widowed Elisabeth Gornac emerges from a cocoon of pale respectability to mother Robert and even to further his love affair with Paula. Her grown son, Pierre, a devout Roman Catholic of a gloomy Jansenite cast, hates all that Robert stands for. Though he is pietistically given to "searching his heart, calling God to witness," and laboriously examining his motives, he nonetheless tattles to Paula about Robert's past...
...Losing Paula snaps the little coherence remaining in Robert: he knocks Pierre down; he drunkenly invites the shocked Elisabeth to share his bed; he speeds away from Viridis with a gaggle of his Paris friends. Both the Gornacs thank God-Elisabeth for having been freed of "an evil presence," Pierre for having sufficient humility not to resent having been punched. Then, days later, they learn that Robert has been killed in an auto accident...
...could scarcely recognize God if he met Him in a blaze of light on the road to Damascus. The real sinners are those who know God but love only themselves or their illusions. The killing of Robert Lagave brings with it a moment of shocked awareness that soon fades: Paula weeps and then marries a neighboring landowner; Pierre sighs and goes on to the priesthood, confident of his heavenly credentials; Elisabeth remembers longest, but she, too, slides back into the equable round of days in which even God is little more than "numbness and sleep." These, says Mauriac...