TMR 18.3: "Why This Eternal Escaping?" [Ann Quin]
Dead dummies, drowned tramps, resolving the Oedipal complex, the forever incompleteness of the number "3," sex, the sea, slapstick comedy, irony, competing desires of domesticity versus the desire to escape, the beautiful ending and the reverse coda, and much more is discussed on this episode covering the whole of Ann Quin's Berg.
Now Chad and Brian move on to Quin's second novel, Three, which came out in 1969 and, in a way, begins right where we left off, opening "with the disappearance at sea, possibly suicide, of a young woman, identified only as S." You can get the book via And Other…
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