Comments | mewimakittie: *this is going to be long*

mewimakittie

this is going to be long

Jul 22, 2004 02:02

Charlotte perkins gilman The yellow wallpaper ( Read more... )

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mewimakittie July 22 2004, 02:06:57 UTC

He said there was only one window and not room for two beds, and no near room for him if he took another ( ... )

mewimakittie July 22 2004, 02:08:06 UTC

He said that after the wall-paper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on ( ... )

mewimakittie July 22 2004, 02:08:49 UTC

The furniture in this room is no worse than inharmonious, however, for we had to bring it all from downstairs. I suppose when this was used as a playroom they had to take the nursery things out, and no wonder! I never saw such ravages as the children have made here ( ... )

mewimakittie July 22 2004, 02:09:53 UTC

I lie here on this great immovable bed--it is nailed down, I believe--and follow that pattern about by the hour. It is as good as gymnastics, I assure you. I start, we'll say, at the bottom, down in the corner over there where it has not been touched, and I determine for the thousandth time that I will follow that pointless pattern to some sort of a conclusion ( ... )

mewimakittie July 22 2004, 02:10:25 UTC

I never thought of it before, but it is lucky that John kept me here after all, I can stand it so much easier than a baby, you see ( ... )