She even wrote her Required Essay on “Male Ventriloquism: The Women of Randolph Henry Ash.” Roland did not want this. When he suggested that she should strike out on her own, make herself noticed, speak up, she accused him of “taunting” her. When he asked, what did she mean, “taunting,” she resorted, as she always did when they argued, to silence. Since silence was also Roland’s only form of aggression, they would continue in this way for days, or, one terrible time when Roland directly criticised “Male Ventriloquism,” for weeks. And then the fraught silence would modulate into conciliatory
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