Helen Garner: Herring

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“Ideas came swarming through her, and like many people who labour in the obsession of solitude, she lacked the detachment to challenge them.”

Helen Garner book Cosmo Cosmolino

Page 57, describing Maxine.
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

“Her handwriting in these pencilled jottings, made forty-five years ago, is exactly as it is today: this makes me suspect, when I am not with her, that she is a closet intellectual.”

In the title story Postcards from Surfers.
Garner describing her mother.
Postcards from Surfers (1985)

“Out in deep space the planets sweep, inexorable, along their splendid orbits. Maxine bowed her head. From now on she would take the gods' dictation.”

Helen Garner book Cosmo Cosmolino

Page 166.
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

“What's funny?' said Pin, shifting uncomfortably in the hospital bed.
'I was looking at your mouth. It's exactly the same as mine.'
'Small and mean,' said Pin, whose devotion to the church did not damp her vulgar sense of humour. 'Wanna see a cat's bum?' She pursed her lips into a tight bunch. They snickered in the quiet ward.
'You'll never go to heaven,' said Kathleen. 'You're rude.”

Page 21.
Honour (1980)