Wu Ting
How would you interpret this phrase? She’d seen the first of the stories several days ago, but didn’t phone, hoping to spare me embarrassment for a while. Or else, not knowing what to say. All the stories linking us romantically, she has been carrying that alone. Remarks and stares at the library and the market. I know she is often recognized. I couldn’t read much of it. It made me feel too helpless, lost in some landscape of murdered truth. Lev would have been scientific, tracking the trail of this particular prevarication, studying how the branches diverged and where the thing started. Probably in Star Week or the Echo, though the story also made the reputable papers, and of course the Trumpet. It always begins somewhere, one howler waking up the others. How would you interpret this phrase: though the story also made the reputable papers? Thanks! This excerpt is taken from The Lacuna by Kingsolver.Does the sentence mean the story probably started from Star Week or the Echo, though the reputable papers, including the Trumpet, also reported it?
Apr 22, 2015 1:02 AM
Answers · 3
He's implying that Star Week and the Echo are tabloid newspapers, the kind that publish mostly celebrity gossip, but the story also appeared in well-respected newspapers.
April 22, 2015
Reputable papers are well regarded papers that don't print garbage. "It was in Crazy People Weekly, the Insane Province, but also in some reputable papers."
April 22, 2015
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