Eating Sugar

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Præsentation af teksten

Titel: “Eating Sugar” (2001)
Forfatter: Catherine Merriman
Udgivet i: Getting a Life (samling)
Genre: Novelle

Catherine Merriman er en engelsk forfatter bosiddende Wales, som skriver både noveller og romaner. Hun har vundet adskillige britiske priser for hendes noveller. Hun arbejder som underviser på University of South Wales.

Uddrag

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Title

The title of the short story, “Eating Sugar”, does not reveal much about the plot at first. Upon reading the story, we find out that it is an allusion to an event from Alex’s and Eileen’s youth: when they took LSD and Eileen used sugar as a way to calm herself during a bad trip (a moment of panic): “She had taken a tab of LSD—as he himself had done— and was having a bad, deeply anxious, few minutes. There was a myth during those days that sugar was meant to bring you out.” (p. 22, ll. 32-35)