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Mr. Tom Posted 16 years ago
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You asked for something that consumes while it burns...
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Could you please explain the yellow part to me?
Rodolphe Boulanger: I'm a fairly courageous man, Emma, but I was afraid of you.
Emma Bovary: No! Oh... oh, I ask for too much, I know it. I expected too much of you.
Rodolphe Boulanger: You asked for something that consumes while it burns - that destroys everything it touches. I didn't want to be destroyed.
Thanks,
Tom
Could you please explain the yellow part to me?
Rodolphe Boulanger: I'm a fairly courageous man, Emma, but I was afraid of you.
Emma Bovary: No! Oh... oh, I ask for too much, I know it. I expected too much of you.
Rodolphe Boulanger: You asked for something that consumes while it burns - that destroys everything it touches. I didn't want to be destroyed.
Thanks,
Tom
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We talk poetically about 'a burning passion' for someone. Bovary is wanting Boulanger to feel such a burning passion for her, but of such depth and intensity that it would overwhelm Boulanger - it would burn with such intensity that he would be consumed - and more: such love, such a passion is destructive to the other -'it destroys everything it touches'. and destroy you (Bovary) at the same time.
- We talk poetically about 'a burning passion' for someone.
- Bovary is wanting Boulanger to feel such a burning passion for her, but of such depth and intensity that it would overwhelm Boulanger - it would burn with such intensity that he would be consumed - and more: such love, such a passion is destructive to the other -'it destroys everything it touches'.
- and destroy you (Bovary) at the same time.
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We talk poetically about 'a burning passion' for someone.
Bovary is wanting Boulanger to feel such a burning passion for her, but of such depth and intensity that it would overwhelm Boulanger - it would burn with such intensity that he would be consumed - and more: such love, such a passion is destructive to the other -'it destroys everything it touches'.
I am a coward, and don'
Bovary is wanting Boulanger to feel such a burning passion for her, but of such depth and intensity that it would overwhelm Boulanger - it would burn with such intensity that he would be consumed - and more: such love, such a passion is destructive to the other -'it destroys everything it touches'.
I am a coward, and don'
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