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in fact, what then propels her out, to imagine once again her
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separateness from it.
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So, what Robinson gives us, I think, in this version, not so much in
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the story of Lucille and Ruth and the difference between the two of them,
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which parses the problem as being
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those who conform and can be legible to the world
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and those who are not and have to be separate from the social world.
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Lucille goes to the home economics teacher.
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Ruth goes with Sylvie.
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That's a very simple split.
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This passage, and the way Ruth's mind works, makes it much more complex,
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so that it's the identity that allows for the final alienation.