Stylizing the Mundane: Bernice Morgan's Random Passage.
Ethnologies 2001, Annual, 23, 1
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"Tis like the bible," Vinnie had said and Mary had believed her, had expected stories of giants and floods, of storms and bolts of lightning coming out of heaven, yarns with great ringing phrases, rolling words like those that leapt from Ned's mouth when he was happy or excited. Instead Lavinia has written of women clearing gardens, of making fish, or hay, or candles -- mundane things Mary would not have given the time of day to. "Whenever is she goin' to get around to somethin' happenin'?" the old woman would ask peevishly after Rachel has been reading about berry-picking or boat building for an hour (Morgan 1992: 92-93).
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