Women And Children First
“Lately Gilda’s been troubled by this confusion of images. This winter she reread Madame Bovary, and Emma’s swoony romantic airs kept bringing to mind Miss Piggy. Gilda blames this on how much of the last dozen years she’s spent among children. Childless women have other problems, she knows, but she’s pretty sure that the inability to distinguish the mythic from the cartoon isn’t one of them. When Phoebe Morrow aims her camera at the horizon, she’s not seeing an untrustworthy line which may at a...ny moment turn into a tightrope for Koko the Clown to bounce on; when Phoebe took those famous photographs of the dead Marines in Beirut, she knew she wasn’t shooting G.I. Joe.
Making a square with her fingers, Gilda frames her living room to see what in that mass of discarded clothes and sports equipment and chewed-up baseball cards might catch Phoebe’s eye. Nothing, she realizes, and anyway, Nathan’s already taken that shot. Nathan’s made his name as a chronicler of everyday disorder, so sometimes it seems unfair that he should chide Gilda for being, alternately, too fussy and not neat enough.MoreLess
Making a square with her fingers, Gilda frames her living room to see what in that mass of discarded clothes and sports equipment and chewed-up baseball cards might catch Phoebe’s eye. Nothing, she realizes, and anyway, Nathan’s already taken that shot. Nathan’s made his name as a chronicler of everyday disorder, so sometimes it seems unfair that he should chide Gilda for being, alternately, too fussy and not neat enough.MoreLess
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