https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146 en-us 2017-05-25 18:24:07 UTC 2017-06-09 18:09:58 UTC hello@padlet.com shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902203 They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!]]> 2017-06-09 16:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902203 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902238 There are thousands of papers, stretching back over hundreds of years, affecting Belle Reve as, piece by piece, our improvident grandfathers and father and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications—to put it plainly! . . . The four-letter word deprived us of our plantation, till finally all that was left—and Stella can verify that!—was the house itself and about twenty acres of ground, including a graveyard, to which now all but Stella and I have retreated.]]> 2017-06-09 16:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902238 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902334 Oh, I guess he’s just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume, but maybe he’s what we need to mix with our blood now that we’ve lost Belle Reve.]]> 2017-06-09 16:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902334 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902408 I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack.]]> 2017-06-09 16:53:04 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902408 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902600 Yes. A different species. ]]> 2017-06-09 16:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902600 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902680 From the land of the sky blue water. They brought a captive maid.]]> 2017-06-09 16:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902680 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902865 He stalks into the bedroom and she follows him.]]> 2017-06-09 16:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175902865 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175903231 You see, under the Napoleonic code- a man has to take interests in his wife's affairs.]]> 2017-06-09 17:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175903231 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175903707 You hens cut out that conversation in there. ]]> 2017-06-09 17:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175903707 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175904120 He advances and disappears. There is the sound of a blow. Stella cries out.]]> 2017-06-09 17:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175904120 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175904424 Poker shouldn't be played in a house with women.]]> 2017-06-09 17:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175904424 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175904702 - I was- sort of - thrilled by it. 
- He was as good as a lamb. 
- Stanley doesn't give me a regular allowance, he likes to pay bills himself, but- this morning he gave me ten dollars to smooth things over. ]]> 2017-06-09 17:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175904702 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175905038 Contrast to southern way of thinking controlled by desire.
Blanche, "What are you talking about is brutal desire- just- desire.
Stella, "Haven't you ever ridden on that streetcar?"]]> 2017-06-09 17:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175905038 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175905364 When people are soft- soft people have got to court the favour of hard ones. 
...You've got to be soft and attractive. And I - I'm fading now!]]> 2017-06-09 17:19:56 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175905364 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175905701 - Can I - uh - kiss you - good-night? (pg 60) 
- Are you laughing at me? (pg 61)
- I better leave it on. (pg 62)
- How old are you? (pg 65)]]> 2017-06-09 17:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175905701 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175908339 - Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir? Vous ne comprenez pas? (pg 61)
- Speaks with affection of demureness.
- Yes, honey?
- You disgust me...]]> 2017-06-09 17:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175908339 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175908738 - I  don't think I ever seen you in the light. (pg 86)
- I've never had a real good look at you, Blanche. (pg 86)
-  I was a fool enough to believe you was straight. (pg 87)
- What I been missing all summer.. You're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother. (pg 89)]]> 2017-06-09 17:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175908738 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175909029 - Light? Which light? What for? (pg 86)
- I don't want realism. (pg 86)
- She pours herself another drink. (pg 87)]]> 2017-06-09 18:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175909029 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175909395 - He starts removing his shirt. (pg 92)
-  Grinning (pg 96)
- You want some rough-house! (pg 96)
- We've had this date with each other from the beginning. (pg 97)]]> 2017-06-09 18:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xyejrx0u9146/wish/175909395