THE QUICKSAND, a Short Story by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Quentin, a perceptive and devoted mother, senses that her son Alan is troubled and in need of her counsel. Alan reveals that his beloved, Hope Fenno, has refused his marriage proposal due to ethical concerns about his ownership of the Radiator newspaper, which she finds morally objectionable. Mrs. Quentin, understanding the depth of Alan's love for Hope, meets with ......

[nilgiridreaming]

‘The girl’s mind was scantily furnished…’ What a phrase! Love it! 👌

[emmahardesty]

What an exquisite story. I've never before been impressed by Wharton. Several delectable quotes. If only all conversations between each of us could be as consistently honest.

[ropeburnsrussell]

What a sad story, but love is so often accompanied by heartache.
I think the mother is correct.

[davidmayhew]

Such a beautiful rendition of a work of genius.

[CarolWoodhouse-ws]

Beautifully written. Beautifully read. Thank you

[BlueButterfly-wkdl]

A thousand thank yous for continuing to being the cause of the extremely restful end to my day

[helenwheels]

Young Miss dodged a bullet. Thanks mom 😅

[Shineon]

….The mother is that rarest of women : Incapable of self-deception, she insists upon stripping all artifice and illusion from her personal biography, facing the often ugly truth—while taking personal responsibility for a share of that ugliness….

I admire her character enormously.

[Sassafras]

How sad to realise your child turned out to be your worst nightmare.

[margo]

I’m afraid I always felt marriage involved feelings of both mental and physical forms of constriction, such that I wasn’t even aware of feeling that way until I left and said, “Who am I?”

[mld]

Edith Wharton is so subtle and nuanced a writer, but I'm not sure I've grasped the point. Was the mother really horrified by her son's carer or was she effectively trying to prevent the girl from marrying

[suzicameron]

I wish we had readers again and not AI

[billdauphine]

It so good that I think I actually dislike these people (characters).

[mattneillninasmom]

Afraid I've no patience for this stylized badinage.

[maconcamp]

Mercury Rising!!! 🌡️💕💕💕💕🤒 It’s getting hot in here!! 👙Global warming is the planet warming up to each other!! 🐨🐨

The Big Bang Theory!! Gravity is memory!!🐘 🐾 🥁

We’re each a particle, photon or star; cosmic surfing!!!🏄‍♂️ 🏄‍♀️ When this wave collapses seems to depend on us. The physics!! 👩‍🔬 We’re all fizzicists!! 🥤 Mount Shasta is the root!! ⛰️ Root beer!! 🍺 🐻 Big bear!!! Big bear chase me!!! The Great Outdoors!!🐾 🌲 🐾🌲🐾🌲🐾🌲

The 7 goddesses of the Pleiades!! 💎💎💎💎💎💎💎 After I personally tie the knot with them, we’ll create the figure 8 and become infinite!! Astronauts and cosmonauts!! Naughty!! 🪢 🧑‍🚀🎱😂 My Russian nesting dolls!! 🪺 My fine China!!! 🍽️

Each thought represents a bang❗️Higher vibrational thoughts 🐝🐝🐝 will create bigger bangs‼️

Pebbles And Bam Bam!! 🧊 🦕 🧊 🦖 🧊 🦣 🧊

Each grain of sand or pebble, a building block for planets or dark matter!! 🪨 Dark energy aka consciousness, creates the bang!! Supernovae!! 💥

Super Moons!! Flowery moons!! 🌹 Saturn a flowery moon!! Representing the 6th dimension!! More energy!!🪐 🛸

We control it!! 🧞 We’re stars!!✨

Hi, Hey, Hello!!🦜

The more G’s, the better!! They’ll reflect our minds, technology and more!! G strings!! 👙 👙👙👙

Our brains look like gum!! 🧠 Juicier the better!!!🍏🍋‍🟩🫐🍍🍎🍌🍈🥥🍐🍉🍒🥝🍊🍇🍑🍋🍓🥭

Love everything until it loves you back!! Mosquitos too!!🦟 ❤ Love cancer!! The Crab Nebula!! 🎇 Don’t be crabby!!🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Nothing transcends space and time more than love!! 💗 Love is a spaceship!! Taking us higher!!✈️ 🚀 🛸 The greatest attraction in the universe!! 🎪

Each of us and each galaxy would represent a cell!! 🦠 We’re stars putting ourselves back together again!! Like Humpty Dumpty!! 🥚 🐓

The sky is blue because we’re meant to imagine it as a diamond!! The auroras then create the rest of the spectrum!! 🌈 💎

A purple sky would reflect the heart of the ocean!! An opened mind!! 🤯 The earth purring more!! rain!!☔️ 🐈‍⬛ 🧶

Each thought to me is a solar flare, which shifts us into parallel worlds!! It’s hard here!!! I’m a peaceful dude, yet my life here has been super difficult!!🥹

Alpha Centauri represents a shift in consciousness!! Dog planet!! We’re riding the alpha waves!! Woof woof!!🐶 🐾 This is our world peace and enlightenment for the world and universe!! All is one!!😇🥳🥰🤩

We’re each a mini universe!!🌌

The 3 Body Problem represents our gut brain, 🍱 heart, ❤️ and mind!! 🧠 Connecting mind, body, soul, and spirit!! The Holy Spirit becomes whole!! A glory hole!!! 🔆

The moon is a black hole!! 🕳️ A neutrino!! The planet is a colonized moon!!😇🌍👽 The sun is a shapeshifter!! 🌞

Are you and I sculpting together as a team or as individuals??? 🧑‍🎨 Using the moon as a tool!!! 🪨 The Sun is the eye!!👁️

I love the tool/word grinder!!!😮 We’d be Bumping and Grinding!!😂

The Earth is like a refrigerator and the atmospheric pressure is melting or defrosting the stars above, as if they’ve been in the freezer!! 🥶

It would also reflect us krystalyzing and becoming diamonds in the sky!! 💎 💎💎 Lucy becomes Maisie!! 🐒 👽

We could be stars from above aka heaven, melting everything from above, as well! Like a River Running Through It!!! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Gravitational waves or our thoughts raining down on us through higher dimensions!!! 🌧️

Pass the doobie to the left hand side!!🇯🇲🍍

Unlocking a Secret Garden within and outside of us!!🤫 An Oasis!!!🏝️ 🏝️🏝️🏝️🏝️

Flowing!!! It helps a lot to flow!!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 Letting go, so we can concentrate more and work on our project!! Heaven On Earth!!🌍 👼

Flowers!! 🌺 🌸 💐 and Flow-Ers!!🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

I know energy is still impurrtant!! 😻

And of course imagination!!! Love!!!💗 🐶 🎾 🧶 🐈‍⬛

To create heaven On Earth, the galaxies collide!! 🌌 Twin flames connect!! 🔥 🔥 We’re creating quantum entanglement!! Ghost particles merging, becoming more like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻

The universe is still the Earth!!⭐️🌍⭐️ We’re seeing it from the insides!! 🕵️ Like we’re inside a volcano 🌋 or wishing well!! The stars and galaxies are like coins!!🪙 The Goonies vibes!! 💀 We’re treasure!! Antarctica is treasure island!! 🐧🇦🇶 Unlocking antimatter!! 🐜 Booby and booty traps exposed!! Planet X!! Hubba Hubba!!🥰

Everything and everyone has been our teacher!!👩‍🏫

3D is like the murky bottom of a bong or volcano!!🌋 The fourth dimension, representing Mars is like the stem of the bong or the volcanos vent!! 👽 Experiencing higher dimensions is like the smoke or magma reaching our mouths 😋 and then circulating through our bodies!! We are the Earth!!🌍 👼

The road less traveled!!!🧳 🌹 Straight up!! 🎈 🎈🎈🎈🎈We’d be super condensed or extremely packed neutron stars!! Like Rigel!! Blueberries!! Antioxidants!! Betelgeuse has evolved into a neutron star!! 🍊🫐

Our long winding road, exploring different dimensions, finally straightening out!! I’m getting Pee Wee vibes!! Large Marge sent me!!🚴😂

We’re vaporized, as if we’ve been smoked or roasted!! 💨 The smoke representing again those compressed neutron stars climbing the higher dimensions of the universe like a chimney!! I’m Mary Poppins, y’all !! ☂️ 🧞‍♀️

It would also represent us as a comet traveling through a wormhole!! 💫

Who me, I’m just a worm!!🐛 🫖 Solving a labyrinth!! 🦉 Solving amaze!!! 🦋

Different energies tell a different story!! 📚

We’re storytellers!! Artists!!🧑‍🎨

We’re energy first!! 🐝

A 12 inch boner is like receiving a foot of snow!!⛄️ 😂 When powered by neutrons and a magnetar energy field, one is like the energizer bunny!!🐰 They’ll keep going and going and going!! 🐇 🐇🐇🐇🐇

If you’re destined to have more than one twin flame, you’re like Frogger, playing leap frog!! Lucy is a sucker for Lillies!! 🐸 🍀 🐸 🍀 🐸🍀🐸🍀🐸

G Force!!!🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳👙🥳

Dorothy’s Ruby red slippers!! ❤❤

Something here in 3D land has to change, yes, Dark Crystal Series!!😍 🧚🏼

We need to get this show rolling!! 🎥

We need our second moon!! Two moons!!! Two Mercurys!! Two black holes!!🕳️ 🕳️ They’ll need some color!! 🌈

Two blood moons!! 🩸 🩸

Two Ruby red slippers!!🥿 🥿 We have to die and become reborn!! Dye!! Dye those slippers red!!😮❤❤😂

Makes complete sense!! 🤯

There’s no place like home!! Home is where the heart is!! Jupiter and the 5th dimension!! 🐸 🍀 Clover Field!!👽 🛸

Time speeds up real fast once we’re there because seeing is definitely believing!! We get excited, hearts start pumping!! 💕 Minds start to open up!! 💜 Oxytocin pumping through our blood!! A love signature!! ✍️ Removing our writers block!! We’re storytellers!! 📚

The two blood moons also like draculas fangs!! Or the fangs of a snake and spider!! A kundalini experience!!!🐍💜 An anti venom!! 🐜 A love bite!! I’m nibbling your ear!! Ringing your ears like church bells!! A liberty bell! 🔔 Heightening your spidey senses!!!🕷️😳🩸🩸

My story just gets juicier!! 🍇 Sticky icky!! 🎄When is it juicy enough for you, I guess, is the question!! Strawberry Hill!! Cherry Blossoms!!🍒🍓We even got hills named after chocolate!!🍫

Purrthquakes instead of Earthquakes!! 😻

A Never Ending Story!! 🐺 ☁️ 🐌 ☁️ 📖

“Still in love! Still in love with that dream!! 🏔️ 🏔️ 🦌 “

Super Earth!! ⭐️ Superheroes!! ⭐️ Super pets!! ⭐️ Super foods!!⭐️ A place where everything is awesome!!🤩 A place where everyone is adorable!!🥰

I’m a sighentist!!🙄 A souldier!!😇 A Glad I Ate Hers!!😋🥧 And most of all a Roarier for the universe!!🦁

The Great Lakes represent the heart of the ocean coming together!! 🫀🌊 A huge manifestation!! 🐰 ⏰ 🍄 A microcosm of our oceans, which will someday become fresh!! 🔬 We’re sky people!! The planet our backyard!! An aquarium!! 🐠 An octopuses garden!!🪴 🐙

Dinosaurs have played the role of our bacteria!! 🦠 They’re back!!! 🦕 🦟 Hold on to your butts!!! Everything is getting supersized!!🧑🏿‍🍳🍟🍔🥤

When the Earth gets it two blood moons 🩸 🩸, it will represent us!!! Mostly centered around twin flames!!🥰🥰

Like we’re children of the universe!! We’ll be cells too and it will be like we’re watching each other grow and evolve!!🦥🐾🦥🐾

Our stars bursting here and there!! 💥 🎇 🎆
A galaxy is a moon or seed exploding dramatically!! A eureka moment for sure!!

If Yellowstone’s “Old Faithful” is an eye 👁️, then when it blows 🌋, that could be imagined as Gaia firing off photons, particles, or stars into the sky!!🌌

The same as solar flares for the sun!!🌞

So when the universe turns more lights on, especially when it comes to the Milky Way Center or that of a galaxy like Andromeda; it would represent these photons 👻 particles 🎇 or stars!!✨

All coming from Gaia’s third eye!! 🌍 👼 🪽

Old Faithful!! 🌋

Moana!! 🌀

Micro/macro!! 🔬 🔭 🪐 🧑‍🚀 ⭐️

My cosmic perspective!! 🐼 🧪 ⚛️

[snowyowl]

Have realised that narrators must always read dispassionately ..
this is an example of the opposite …
That’s probably why male narrators are preferred.
(the feminine