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Book: Remarkable Creatures
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Tracy Chevalier _ Remarkable Creatures
the grandeur false if you were not grand yourself.
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Tracy Chevalier _ Remarkable Creatures
Twenty-first-century attitudes towards time and our expectations of story are very different from the shape of Mary Anning's life. She spent day after day, year after year, doing the same thing on the beach. I have taken the events of her life and condensed them to fit into a narrative that is not stretched beyond the reader's patience. Hence events, while in order, do not always coincide exactly with actual dates and time spans. Plus, of course, I made up plenty. For instance, while there was gossip about Mary and Buckland and Mary and Birch, there was no proof. That is where only a novelist can step in.
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Tracy Chevalier _ Remarkable Creatures
marry. Fanny was having all the time what I experienced only the once with Colonel Birch in the orchard. I had my fame to comfort me, and the money it brought in, but that only went so far. I could not hate Fanny, for it were my fault she was crippled. But I could not ever feel friendly towards her nor comfortable round her. That was the case with many people in Lyme. I had come unstuck. I would never be a lady like the Philpots-no one would ever call me Miss Mary. I would be plain Mary Anning. Yet
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Tracy Chevalier _ Remarkable Creatures
It's simple, Miss Philpot. This is one of God's early models, and He decided to give the subsequent ones smaller eyes." I raised my eyebrows. "Do you mean God rejected it?" "I mean God wanted a better version-the crocodile we know now-and replaced it.
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Tracy Chevalier _ Remarkable Creatures
not of this world,
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Tracy Chevalier _ Remarkable Creatures
Although we kept the door ajar so that we could hear, we could not see beyond the gentlemen standing in front of the door in the crowded room. I felt trapped behind a wall of men that separated me from the main event.
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Tracy Chevalier _ Remarkable Creatures
I missed the currency of ideas. In London we had been part of a wide circle of solicitors' families, and social occasions had been mentally stimulating as well as entertaining.
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Tracy Chevalier _ Remarkable Creatures
had come to London for a reason, not to enjoy anonymity and solitude whilst eyeing the wider horizon."
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God placed the fossils there when He created the rocks, to test our faith, he responded at last. As He is clearly testing yours Miss Philpot. It is my faith in you that is being tested, I thought.
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Tracy Chevalier _ Remarkable Creatures
It is not easy to let someone go, even when they have said unforgivable things to you.
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Yes, Mary Anning, you are different from all the rocks on the beach.
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Tracy Chevalier _ Remarkable Creatures
I did not sleep well that night. I was not used to having the power to affect someone's life so and did not easily carry its weight, as a man might have done.
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