APS TOGETHER
Day 30
New Grub Street by George GissingChapter 30
December 5, 2023 by Yiyun Li
“‘Can you promise to keep a little love for me all that time?’ he asked with a constrained smile.”
Well, what an apologetically Milvainy question. He may not be the most honorable character, but he speaks the most interesting lines in this novel.
The fact that both Alfred Yule and Jasper ask Marian if she could write fiction for money is chilling.
“Could you do anything that would sell?”
Now that is a question that has plagued more than Marian.
Jasper and Maud match each other in their dialogue; Dora doesn’t quite, but she offers a good balancing third point of this interesting triangle.
