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this is what she does.
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She complains about the whole world until she's got everything covered,
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she's covered every complaint she could possibly have,
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and then she sings.
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And the fact that she turns to singing after having done that suggests a kind of continuity,
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that there is an operatic, artistic quality to the complaining.
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And Morrison gives it to us in her voice,
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and that is the kind of pleasure that Morrison's novels give us;
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that's the kind of humor that her novels give us.
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It's not going to be the funny, sad situation of the perpetually alienated Ambrose.
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It's going to be a woman in her kitchen who's out of milk now,
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doesn't know where she's getting the next quart,