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gillpolack, if I were forty years younger and had the wherewithal to go overseas for the research,
here is the woman I'd like to share with the world.
How about you--biography, novel, film, graphic novel series, who would you like to share with the world?
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Forgot to mention emigrating from Canada to the US, South Dakota. Which was no picnic at the end of the 1800s.
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"Is there language in that book? My kids are under twelve."
He said that driver is a douche. Does that not mean a shower?"
"Cats are floons."
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Liselotte sounds fascinating. I wish my French was better (my German is non-existent) so I could read more about her.
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Matilda! Oh, yes.
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Joan Clarke, i.e., the reason the character of Pat Green annoys me more with every re-read of Hugh Whitemore's Breaking the Code (1986). I appreciate the dramatic value of a female codebreaker serving to remind the audience of other kinds of marginalization, another outsider who's invaluable in times of national crisis and then expected to conform and/or disappear once life has returned to "normal," it just happens that we're conditioned to accept the ways in which she does so (marriage, motherhood, domesticity) as less horrific than chemical castration and suicide; the problem is that Whitemore left just enough real-life particulars in the fictionalization that it cannot but feel, once you learn anything about actual Joan Clarke, like betrayal. Clarke was a codebreaker at Bletchley; she was Turing's closest female friend both during and after the war and even engaged for about half a year to marry him (in full knowledge of his ( ... )
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