My blood is boiling! The outrage of this! The men so drunk with power and condescension they have no idea it’s also their lives these women are fighting for. Give me strength! 🤬
It’s hard to decide which bit of wonderfulness to point out. Bridget’s transformation, the way every bit of the scene comes alive in my mind, that absolutely fantastic last line. These are a few.
God the blindness depicted with such urgency. Brilliant juxtaposition between the men’s efforts to remove the women and the women’s efforts to stand fur saving life including the men.
"A teenage girl no longer hiding; Kate could see it in the way she ran." Bridget's transformation is almost complete. You've given us the perfect witness of that in Kate. Masterfully done in the brilliant mayhem of the scene.
When I flash back to Nevada test site now... I remember how much destruction was wrought to our beautiful/functional encampment by the authorities. But what also haunts me about this chapter is the image of the women appearing out of the woods and surrounding the bailiff in all his stark male-ness. In the desert, we'd had no place to hide or strike this way. I'm also reminded of a time when I was nine million months pregnant in New York and coming home late one night on the subway from a job. I stepped on the train at Columbus Circle and there was a guy acting erratically and all the women stepped up to surround me in protection. Such potent magic. The last images of the costumes remind me so much of select moments from the UK series Utopia (2013) https://youtu.be/uJnN3WMwDsk So much vivid goodness in this chapter!
This brings back so many memories of Blue Gate. A group of Quaker tent makers made The Getaway an A frame tent that could literally be pulled out of the ground in seconds by the A frames and taken away before the bailiffs could grab it.
My blood is boiling! The outrage of this! The men so drunk with power and condescension they have no idea it’s also their lives these women are fighting for. Give me strength! 🤬
I've come back to this in a later chapter - great stuff, Eleanor! Love the last image. I'll have to go backwards and fill in the gaps.
Thanks Kate!
It’s hard to decide which bit of wonderfulness to point out. Bridget’s transformation, the way every bit of the scene comes alive in my mind, that absolutely fantastic last line. These are a few.
God the blindness depicted with such urgency. Brilliant juxtaposition between the men’s efforts to remove the women and the women’s efforts to stand fur saving life including the men.
Love that typo, Kim! “Stand fur”! Indeed. 😃
Oh haha! I didn’t see that. Funny, punny, and prescient too!
"A teenage girl no longer hiding; Kate could see it in the way she ran." Bridget's transformation is almost complete. You've given us the perfect witness of that in Kate. Masterfully done in the brilliant mayhem of the scene.
When I flash back to Nevada test site now... I remember how much destruction was wrought to our beautiful/functional encampment by the authorities. But what also haunts me about this chapter is the image of the women appearing out of the woods and surrounding the bailiff in all his stark male-ness. In the desert, we'd had no place to hide or strike this way. I'm also reminded of a time when I was nine million months pregnant in New York and coming home late one night on the subway from a job. I stepped on the train at Columbus Circle and there was a guy acting erratically and all the women stepped up to surround me in protection. Such potent magic. The last images of the costumes remind me so much of select moments from the UK series Utopia (2013) https://youtu.be/uJnN3WMwDsk So much vivid goodness in this chapter!
Just watched that link - spooky, I never saw it, and yes, the bunny…
This brings back so many memories of Blue Gate. A group of Quaker tent makers made The Getaway an A frame tent that could literally be pulled out of the ground in seconds by the A frames and taken away before the bailiffs could grab it.
You were there! And thank you. If it’s bringing back memories, that’s huge for me to hear.