(Imagine caring for an injured duck and hoping it becomes your pet, following you and listening to you.) So lameducking can create a power of control over others.
This shows the power of lameducking when the person you are caring for and being sympathetic to does start to like and trust you enough to do what you want. That I could get her to do things for me that she wouldn’t do for them." I lameducked her just to show the Vestal Virgins that I was cleverer than they. This shows that she thinks of lameducking as giving sympathy and thinks that she does it sincerely, not selfishly, because others need her sympathy. That I lameduck people only because it flatters me, not because I believe they need my sympathy." It means that I have no realīelief in the power of reason, and sympathy and humanity. 139 - "If I use violence I descend to his level. (Again, imagine caring for an injured duck.) This time it shows the meaning of lameducking to be about "a feeling of responsibility" and "pity" and a "wanting to help". My pity wins, and I do want to help him." I so often hate him, I think I ought to forever hate him. It won’t be altogether a lie, I feel a responsibility towards him that I don’t really understand. 131 - "I shall say I feel differently towards him, that I want toīe his friend and lameduck him in London. This use shows the meaning of lameducking to be about taking away someone or something's freedom but also providing well for it, and having a feeling of ownership. The same thing happened when I was lameducking Donald last spring. Pg.90 - "He keeps me absolutely prisoner. The hints are in each time Miranda uses the word. And Miranda uses it to understand why he is doing this to her because she has done it to others. It's what the main character is doing by kidnapping the girl Miranda. This is exactly what Fowles means when he writes to "lameduck" something. Maybe we secretly hope that it learns to trust us and love us and stay as a pet. We feel a desire to claim the animal, take it into our home, and treat it very well, but not let it go until it heals. When seeing a "lame duck" or any injured small animal in the wild, we normally feel pity or sympathy and want to care for it. But it is just a coined word taken from the noun "lame duck" and turned into a verb.Īs a noun, a "lame duck" is literally an injured duck who cannot walk (waddle) or walks poorly because it is hurt and in pain. It seems to only be used this way in this book. And anyway, most girls would have jumped at the chance Hundreds of other people who needed lameducking, my sympathy, far more Too) - but they’re both attractive young men. Donald and Piers (because I’ve lameducked him in a sense, That I could get her to do things for me that she wouldn’tĭo for them. Lameducked her just to show the Vestal Virgins that I was cleverer I’ve been thinkingīack to Ladymont, to people I lameducked there. Me, not because I believe they need my sympathy.
That I lameduck people only because it flatters It means that I have no real belief in the power of reason, and Could you explain the term lameduck in this passage? Are the words patronize, compassion or help similar or different in this context?ĭoes lameduck have an opposite meaning (negative verb) as lame?
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