- Kenny's book tour is highly successful though, after turning down Fist's request to be her sperm donor, he rows with Carol Ann, though she does come to the book club one more time. Afterwards he finds himself attracted to Harriet, his publisher's daughter. Janice is becoming a crusader on behalf of Scottish farmers in her newspaper column but Jackie is annoyed that she is out of the house so often so both are pleased when Jackie brings back Rab as their live-in help. With Clare unable to have orgasms Lachlan makes a play for Jean, who rebuffs him for being disloyal to her sister. In the resultant confusion he falls into the empty swimming bath where he is working and Jean has to ring for an ambulance.—don @ minifie-1
- They read from the poem Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke, but cut out the line "Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where procreation flared." I am not sure if it is an editing error or intentional. For those of you interested here is the complete poem found on poets.org: translated by Stephen Mitchell "We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low, gleams in all its power. Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could a smile run through the placid hips and thighs to that dark center where procreation flared. Otherwise this stone would seem defaced beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur: would not, from all the borders of itself, burst like a star: for here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life." I felt it might be a wanted item to this page due to the interruption by another character during the reading, thus making it hard to hear the poem.—S.
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