Five Fictions in Search of Truth by Jehlen Myra;

Author:Jehlen, Myra;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2022-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

The inn-keeper’s proposition of a côtelette de veau à l’oseille (457) clinches the matter; a veal cutlet with sorrel is unimpeachable testimony to the real. Strether wanders down to the river at the bottom of the garden to await, with his dinner, the consummation of his discovery of the truth about life. Floating in on the river, borne on its current, comes the evidence that he has been utterly deluded.

At first, he mistakes this catastrophic evidence for its contrary, a confirming continuation of the understanding to which he has only just, but with such confidence, broken through:

What he saw was exactly the right thing—a boat advancing round the bend and containing a man who held the paddles and a lady, at the stern, with a pink parasol. It was suddenly as if these figures, or something like them, had been wanted in the picture, had been wanted more or less all day, and had now drifted into sight, with the slow current, on purpose to fill up the measure. (461)

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