ONE
" And I was Marvelling, in that half-sleep, at my half sleeping, when my son came in, without knocking. Now if there is one thing I abhor, it is someone coming into my room, without knocking. I might just happen to be masturbating, before my cheval-glass."
TWO
"Out? I said. Where? Out! Vagueness I abhor. I was beginning to feel hungry. To the Elms he replied. So we call our little public park. And yet there is not an elm to be seen in it, I have been told. What for? I said. To go over my botany, he replied. There were times I suspected my son of deceit. This was one. I would almost have preferred him to say, For a walk, or, To look at the tarts. The trouble was he knew far more than I, about botany. Otherwise I could have set him a few teasers, on his return."
Couldn't stop laughing after I looked it up.
Aside: Moran is very upset about the fact that there is not any onion in his stew. From above you notice that Jacques (son) knows more about botany than his father (the one thing he does know). Moran questions Jacques about what he's been looking at?
"The liliaceae, papa, he answered. The liliaceae papa! My son had a way of saying papa, when he wanted to hurt me, that was very special.
Now, looking into lililaceae we find a Double Entendre as well as the first hint that Moran is not quite as elite as he believes. lililaceae is a lily, as well as a family of endogens to which the onion belongs.
Moran knows the tell of his son (We understand this a little later with the stamp collection), yet he doesn't know what his son is saying. For Jacques, being held in a constant state of being possessed, it is one of his only outlets.
THREE
"I went down to the kitchen. I did not expect to find Martha there, but I found her there. She was sitting in her rocking-chair, she would have you believe, was the only possession to which she clung and she would not have parted with it for an empire. It is interesting to note that she had installed it not in her room, but in the kitchen, in the chimney-corner. Late to bed and early to rise, it was in the kitchen that she benefited by it most, {the wage-payers are numerous, and I was one of them, who do not like to see, in the place set aside for toil, the furniture of reclining and repose. The servant wishes to rest? Let her retire to her room.}"
And A Note On Names
"My name is Moran, Jacques. That is the name I am known by. I am done for. My son too. All unsuspecting. He must think he's on the threshold of life, of real life. He's right there. His name is Jacques, like mine. This cannot lead to confusion." -and it does not. Father is constantly referred to as Moran, and son as Jacques.
Moran- Moron.....or is he? He is at once both extremely vain.....yet not.......
Gaber- The Gabber. Whom Moran is extremely jealous of because of his monetary status in comparison. He shows no kindness to this man in exchange.
Jacques- The Complete copy of his father, or possession?
Youdi- The Chief
"A simple prophetic present, on the model of those employed by Youdi. Your son goes with you."
Di- Double, Two
You- go to the dictionary.
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