Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall

Author:Paule Marshall [Marshall, Paule]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780465019229
Amazon: 0465019226
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
Published: 2010-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

“Every Bajan buying and we still leasing! Shame! I feel so shame I don’ even like going ’round my friends or family anymore, especially that brother of mine, what with that wife of his always showing off all the nice-nice things they have just so’s to make me feel bad. I can’t stand the sight of that woman!

“Shame! That I went and put myself with somebody you’d never think was a Bajan. No real get-up-and-go to him a-tall. Always trying out one foolish scheme after another that don’ turn so much as a penny! Shame!”

Adriana’s Xanthippe voice in 501’s austere, high-ceilinged rooms. Over the years the sweet-faced young mother in the family photograph had become a West Indian version of Socrates’ shrewish wife.

Also, by then, Sam Burke had long abandoned trying to silence her with his playful “Satan go ’way” hymn. Now, pitting his voice against hers, he equally assailed her for having squandered the Panama Money years ago on the visit home. Money that could have been a down payment on the “beautiful-ugly” house—said with the utmost sarcasm—that she so craved. Finally, he ceased responding in kind. Rather, when the Xanthippe voice became unbearable, Sam Burke simply put on one of his cheap, bespoke-looking suits and took to the streets. Or, according to Adriana, “took to his latest ‘keep-miss,’” some woman who, like herself long ago, could not resist the bold part down the middle of his hair, his “Bridgetown ways,” his abbreviated, modernized name, and his charm.

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