For a full episode transcript, . * by Marilynne Robinson • by Herman Melville • Carl Jung • William Shakespeare • by Marilynne Robinson I was so obsessed with this last couple days: one of the, I think, really fascinating mysteries of this book is where Sylvie has been before she comes to the house, right? Like After Helen leaves with her husband, elopes, moves to Seattle, then comes back home and has like a proper marriage and then goes back to Seattle where she has a couple of children. Then Sylvie, apparently, according to the narrative, follows her to Seattle and then at some point comes home herself and marries somebody named Mr.
Fisher, who we get like almost no information about throughout the book. Like he may have been in the war, he may have fought in the Pacific, but that like literally, that’s all we know and I couldn’t help wondering. If she had had an affair with Helen’s husband or something, you know, like, like there was something, there’s something in that past that nobody wanted to talk about, that that, that I just kept wondering about.
it’s pure speculation. There’s no evidence in the text for it. But there was, there’s something there, you know? Well, it’s a novel, so it, it didn’t really happen, Mike.
But it happened in here! Yeah, yeah, I think that it’s another...
I think she was a transient, like the way she talks about people and the people she meets in bus stations and about being on the trains and talking to people on th.
