Aw, this is lovely! It's as if you lifted it straight from one of the earliest books. Joey's art! I smiled all the way through. <3
why on Earth did Joey always turn 'Madge' into 'my sister'? Wouldn't it have been much easier and less noticeable to turn it into 'Madame'? Although I suppose it would have been harder to convey it in writing than 'Mad - my sister'...
Yes, probably as you say, although also it's a fair point that Joey wouldn't automatically think of Madge first as Madame, so her hasty correct defaults to "my sister." Madame is what everyone else calls her. But I suspect you're right about some writing pragmatism in there!
And I wasn't sure which one would be hating the entire world - as you say, it's obviously Grizel, but Joey's mood swings also were a possiblilty. But it sounded like them together and thank you very much for this. :-)
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Date: 2017-04-25 07:43 am (UTC)why on Earth did Joey always turn 'Madge' into 'my sister'? Wouldn't it have been much easier and less noticeable to turn it into 'Madame'? Although I suppose it would have been harder to convey it in writing than 'Mad - my sister'...
Yes, probably as you say, although also it's a fair point that Joey wouldn't automatically think of Madge first as Madame, so her hasty correct defaults to "my sister." Madame is what everyone else calls her. But I suspect you're right about some writing pragmatism in there!
And I wasn't sure which one would be hating the entire world - as you say, it's obviously Grizel, but Joey's mood swings also were a possiblilty. But it sounded like them together and thank you very much for this. :-)