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Faizan
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The Hotel
Continuation...
The daughter's two boys did not appear to notice much. And unfortunately there was nothing left to be said. Lee had left, and she was now free to stop hiding.
For the old man across the street, he said to his wife, now watching the 'Lone Ranger' I can't believe in this terrible sensitiveness of JL, it looks like her father was outside waiting for her, anxious about seeing her, and she left him freeze!"
"That's as it should be," said his wife, Rita, "it's certainly her will not to want to get involved."
"But how in reality do we know?" he asked her.
"It can't be proved one way or another because it will never come to the test."
"Perhaps, but what is done is done!"
"Isn't this a contradiction?"
"No, it's all clear for JL."
"Why are you looking at me," said the old woman.
"I said all I'm going to say on the matter-can anything be clearer!" Then he hesitated, deliberated on what she said.
"I suppose you're right, why JL should become reacquainted with her father's trivialities, even if it is just seeing her."
"I didn't say that," responded the old man's wife, with a smirk that could have killed an owl.
"Well then" said old man Beck, "then you wouldn't consider it unreasonable for our children to think the same? I mean what Jay did to his father in law, he would never do to his wife's father in law, that being his father," he said underhandedly-
"Who on earth can respond to such a question?" said Rita.
Was it that Jay could not stand, but dreaded and at the same time admired the father image of Lee, his solid strength, his well-balanced vitality? I mean, Lee was a man who had lived, a man for all seasons, and worldly, and spiritual, and he lived as a man should live-who had seemingly mastered life, whereas the son in law a failure in all matters that really counted except in the love of his wife, and the raising of his two boys!
Perhaps Jay's experience in a world that was unpredictable and tyranny for him, had provoked this attitude. He displayed it, better put: he displaced it, on Lee, like moved anger-feeling he was the weakest link, and in doing so, added his critical contempt, he was so devoted to: it made him feel more powerful to lord over Lee whom he once called 'The King Landlord of the Neighborhood.'
"It was," said Raymond to his wife, "Jay became more and more impudent with his father in law, I remember that when he was living next door. Lee gave him everything he wanted, and what did Jay's father do, he gave him butts for cigarettes, and now and then took him grocery shopping because Jay never drove, but Lee put a roof over their heads, and gave them jobs, and vacations and just about anything Jay begged JL to squander out of her father."
"Maybe if Lee would not have treated them with such firmness," said Rita.
The Hotel
Continuation...
The daughter's two boys did not appear to notice much. And unfortunately there was nothing left to be said. Lee had left, and she was now free to stop hiding.
For the old man across the street, he said to his wife, now watching the 'Lone Ranger' I can't believe in this terrible sensitiveness of JL, it looks like her father was outside waiting for her, anxious about seeing her, and she left him freeze!"
"That's as it should be," said his wife, Rita, "it's certainly her will not to want to get involved."
"But how in reality do we know?" he asked her.
"It can't be proved one way or another because it will never come to the test."
"Perhaps, but what is done is done!"
"Isn't this a contradiction?"
"No, it's all clear for JL."
"Why are you looking at me," said the old woman.
"I said all I'm going to say on the matter-can anything be clearer!" Then he hesitated, deliberated on what she said.
"I suppose you're right, why JL should become reacquainted with her father's trivialities, even if it is just seeing her."
"I didn't say that," responded the old man's wife, with a smirk that could have killed an owl.
"Well then" said old man Beck, "then you wouldn't consider it unreasonable for our children to think the same? I mean what Jay did to his father in law, he would never do to his wife's father in law, that being his father," he said underhandedly-
"Who on earth can respond to such a question?" said Rita.
Was it that Jay could not stand, but dreaded and at the same time admired the father image of Lee, his solid strength, his well-balanced vitality? I mean, Lee was a man who had lived, a man for all seasons, and worldly, and spiritual, and he lived as a man should live-who had seemingly mastered life, whereas the son in law a failure in all matters that really counted except in the love of his wife, and the raising of his two boys!
Perhaps Jay's experience in a world that was unpredictable and tyranny for him, had provoked this attitude. He displayed it, better put: he displaced it, on Lee, like moved anger-feeling he was the weakest link, and in doing so, added his critical contempt, he was so devoted to: it made him feel more powerful to lord over Lee whom he once called 'The King Landlord of the Neighborhood.'
"It was," said Raymond to his wife, "Jay became more and more impudent with his father in law, I remember that when he was living next door. Lee gave him everything he wanted, and what did Jay's father do, he gave him butts for cigarettes, and now and then took him grocery shopping because Jay never drove, but Lee put a roof over their heads, and gave them jobs, and vacations and just about anything Jay begged JL to squander out of her father."
"Maybe if Lee would not have treated them with such firmness," said Rita.
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