I have once again been struck by the incredible elegance and insight of your prose. I felt compelled to comment. Your blog has given me so much to think about and yet, somehow, has left me wanting to know more - namely, the following:
1. What do you think is the significance of Carol's name being Carol and Lauren's name being Lauren?
2. Do you think Carol's quip, 'see you later', was ironic/passive aggressive, a mere accident of habit, or a malicious lie?
3. Since, following Howarth (2020), we may conceive of close reading as operating through a kind of performance, would you, Edward Blog, consider making this metaphor literal by reenacting the whole scene with me, your greatest admirer and (I gesture, as a single tear of hope rolls down my cheek) future friend? You can be Carol or Lauren; whatever you want, Edward.
I'd like to first answer your questions with another question: who do you think you are?
As for answers to your questions:
1. I think there is a lot of significance in the names of our two leading ladies. 'Carol', obviously, from the English meaning 'joyful song', has connotations of peace, faith and merriment. 'Lauren' means 'sweet of honour' which I don't really know what that means if I'm honest. So yeah, probably loads of meaning behind this.
2. I think it was probably a last twist of the knife. She clearly knows they won't see each other again, and she has no intention to change that,
3. I will do this but it will cost you a lot of money. Email for details.
hi edward, big fan of this one. have you thought about how the fact that Lauren is actually played by a hyper-realistic cake in this scene maybe changes things?
Hi Siobhan, I have literally no idea who you are and I'm not familiar with any of your work. Lauren being played by cake which was then, using AI, made to look and act like a 28 year old from Brentwood is actually addressed early on in the season! I understand that this does change things in terms of the man/mother/girlfriend dynamic, but if you look at chapter three of Cotterill's book (cited in footnotes) she actually goes into depth about the parallels between womanhood and the way women suffer under patriarchal pressures which not only put her at war with other women in her life, but also herself, stopping her from making true connections, and the way that cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients! While I might go into the nuances of this in future, I didn't want to cover it in this post specifically :) Thanks for the message and please give me money please please please give me some of your money.
Good evening Mr Blog,
I have once again been struck by the incredible elegance and insight of your prose. I felt compelled to comment. Your blog has given me so much to think about and yet, somehow, has left me wanting to know more - namely, the following:
1. What do you think is the significance of Carol's name being Carol and Lauren's name being Lauren?
2. Do you think Carol's quip, 'see you later', was ironic/passive aggressive, a mere accident of habit, or a malicious lie?
3. Since, following Howarth (2020), we may conceive of close reading as operating through a kind of performance, would you, Edward Blog, consider making this metaphor literal by reenacting the whole scene with me, your greatest admirer and (I gesture, as a single tear of hope rolls down my cheek) future friend? You can be Carol or Lauren; whatever you want, Edward.
Thanks a bunch Edward!
Hello Mr Teat,
I'd like to first answer your questions with another question: who do you think you are?
As for answers to your questions:
1. I think there is a lot of significance in the names of our two leading ladies. 'Carol', obviously, from the English meaning 'joyful song', has connotations of peace, faith and merriment. 'Lauren' means 'sweet of honour' which I don't really know what that means if I'm honest. So yeah, probably loads of meaning behind this.
2. I think it was probably a last twist of the knife. She clearly knows they won't see each other again, and she has no intention to change that,
3. I will do this but it will cost you a lot of money. Email for details.
Thanks for the attention,
- Edward Blog, Inventor of Blogs
hi edward, big fan of this one. have you thought about how the fact that Lauren is actually played by a hyper-realistic cake in this scene maybe changes things?
Hi Siobhan, I have literally no idea who you are and I'm not familiar with any of your work. Lauren being played by cake which was then, using AI, made to look and act like a 28 year old from Brentwood is actually addressed early on in the season! I understand that this does change things in terms of the man/mother/girlfriend dynamic, but if you look at chapter three of Cotterill's book (cited in footnotes) she actually goes into depth about the parallels between womanhood and the way women suffer under patriarchal pressures which not only put her at war with other women in her life, but also herself, stopping her from making true connections, and the way that cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients! While I might go into the nuances of this in future, I didn't want to cover it in this post specifically :) Thanks for the message and please give me money please please please give me some of your money.
- Edward Blog, Inventor of Blogs