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11. “It was a lovely autumn day with a blue sky: I made my way through a lead-coloured world, and I realized that my mother’s accident was affecting me far more than I had thought it would. I could not really see why. It had wrenched her out of the framework, the role, the set of images in which I had imprisoned her: I recognized her in this patient in bed, but I did not recognize either the pity or the kind of disturbance that she aroused in me.”
Simone de Beauvoir
Autumn Reflections, Familial Roles, Emotional Shock, Life’s Fragility, Motherly Bonds, Personal Realization
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11. “It was a lovely autumn day with a blue sky: I made my way through a lead-coloured world, and I realized that my mother’s accident was affecting me far more than I had thought it would. I could not really see why. It had wrenched her out of the framework, the role, the set of images in which I had imprisoned her: I recognized her in this patient in bed, but I did not recognize either the pity or the kind of disturbance that she aroused in me.”
Simone de Beauvoir Autumn Reflections, Familial Roles, Emotional Shock, Life’s Fragility, Motherly Bonds, Personal Realization
