So, after missing the last three discussions (but not the reading) I'm in again. *g*
This is a chapter I like, even when we don't read much about Bodie's feelings. It is a Doyle-chapter through and through. But that's okay for me because it is a chapter where he isn't weeping. He thinks and that it is a good thing.
I can imagine that "watching the washing go round" could be very meditative and that it could help you to come to terms with one thing or the other. So it is the best he can do, think about the night. And discovere that he liked it, even when it hurt. But in his mind it can't be a good thing because they are both violent and dangerous and I can understand that he fears that all their lovemaking would be violent and painfull. This really could happen.
And I like Gabe when he sees Doyle again. He reacts in a way a priest who really loves god should react. He forgives Doyle and tells him You're here as my friend now., because he can see into Doyle's soul. And when they talk about their lives they discovere that they are equal in their thinking about corruption, even with Gabe deniing it.
When Gabe tells Doyle to come whith him to Derby to bury the ghosts from his past. It seems a sensible thing to do for me to go and see that the person who hurt you so much no longer can hurt you. To make the ghost vanish. It's like Gabe said I think you have monsters left in Derby, bugbears and ghosts that will vanish if you see the place again. I think you should see your father's grave. That's something all psychiatrists will tell you could help.
I didn't understand about Murphy's return, but maybe that would be clearer in one of the following chapters. And I had difficulties to accept that Cowley wouldn't fight about Doyle leaving without observing the notice period. I'm sure when you in CI5 you can't leave from one day to the other. There has to be a notice period. Might it be a week or a month. So Cowley's reaction is the one thing that doesn't fit for me.
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This is a chapter I like, even when we don't read much about Bodie's feelings. It is a Doyle-chapter through and through. But that's okay for me because it is a chapter where he isn't weeping. He thinks and that it is a good thing.
I can imagine that "watching the washing go round" could be very meditative and that it could help you to come to terms with one thing or the other. So it is the best he can do, think about the night. And discovere that he liked it, even when it hurt. But in his mind it can't be a good thing because they are both violent and dangerous and I can understand that he fears that all their lovemaking would be violent and painfull. This really could happen.
And I like Gabe when he sees Doyle again. He reacts in a way a priest who really loves god should react. He forgives Doyle and tells him You're here as my friend now., because he can see into Doyle's soul. And when they talk about their lives they discovere that they are equal in their thinking about corruption, even with Gabe deniing it.
When Gabe tells Doyle to come whith him to Derby to bury the ghosts from his past. It seems a sensible thing to do for me to go and see that the person who hurt you so much no longer can hurt you. To make the ghost vanish. It's like Gabe said I think you have monsters left in Derby, bugbears and ghosts that will vanish if you see the place again. I think you should see your father's grave. That's something all psychiatrists will tell you could help.
I didn't understand about Murphy's return, but maybe that would be clearer in one of the following chapters. And I had difficulties to accept that Cowley wouldn't fight about Doyle leaving without observing the notice period. I'm sure when you in CI5 you can't leave from one day to the other. There has to be a notice period. Might it be a week or a month. So Cowley's reaction is the one thing that doesn't fit for me.