Girlhood by Julia Copus

Author:Julia Copus [Julia Copus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571351091
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2019-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

to get to the shops? asks the friend. Of course.

What if he comes back while we’re out

and finds the cake?

He won’t come in here. The girl reaches for a stack

of yellow Post-it Notes. Her blue felt-tip

writes greenish on the page –

SURPRISE! DO NOT ENTER!!! She adds a smiley face,

and puts the note aside; returns to the beans. (A pause.)

God, these beans are disgusting. (Giggles.)

Shakespeare’s Henry VIII is full of anger – ‘choler’ and ‘flow of gall’. In only the second scene, the Duke of Norfolk turns to Buckingham and tells him, ‘Anger is like / A full-hot horse; who being allowed his way, / Self-mettle tires him.’ Odd how pieces of horse tack creak and wink out from many of our anger idioms – leather bridles and reins, curb chains. He could not rein in his anger. She must learn to curb her temper. They bridled at the suggestion. In every case, the horse is the anger; the owner of the horse the angry person. Again, the analogy strikes me as evasive. It wasn’t me, Your Honour: it was my horse.

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