Three Women At the Water's Edge
“She was thinking of the little bags of surprises she had given to her children that morning, so that in their eagerness to look at their loot they wouldn’t cry to see their mother leave. She had given them some candy, some Little Golden Books, and some cheap dime-store toys, including, for each of them, a yellow and red plastic harmonica. The children loved harmonicas and played them ceaselessly when they had them; Daisy usually threw them away as soon as one entered the house, because the nois...e was wildly unnerving even to the most doting of mothers. Jenny usually contented herself with walking around the house simply inhaling and exhaling over and over again at one certain note, making a sound exactly like that of a French police car siren. But Danny attempted to play real songs on his harmonica, and was inventive and tireless. Neither he nor Jenny seemed bothered by the fact that their music was dissonant, loud, and painful—just as children didn’t seem to be driven mad by other children’s shrieking, wailing, or sniveling—and they could stay in the same room together playing harmonica duets until Daisy’s head ached and she found herself tense with inexplicable rage.MoreLess
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