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Home > Chapter 3 Sections > Shloss' Deletions
These are quotations of my own language that were deleted before publication.
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What she had viewed on the screen had doubtlessly shaped her own performance, and we can argue that it shaped her understanding in other ways as well. For Lucia read Chaplin as an allegory of her own situation in life, seeing the experience of art as a system of mirrors: the artist watching, the performers waiting for the eyes of the artist, who both creates them and from whom they in turn create..."
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Was she thinking about the husband/father's increasing affinity with a real growing girl, encouraged perhaps by the proximity imposed by poverty but certainly encouraged by his search for writing material? Had she noticed a concomitant withdrawal or lessening of his investment in her? ... She was not yet worried about the child itself, despite the disruption of dreams which might have led her to suspect that her husband's imagination, working silently with no measurable consequences, was nonetheless working with insidious effect... She [Lucia] was not yet cast as the Gerty Macdowell of her family, not yet seen as an untamed actor who would focus that unrest and walk directly and extravagantly into forbidden territory of her own..."
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