Madeleine wrote:
>>>Animals or people or both?
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>>Depends on context, but it's usually bugs?
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>There is no more context than this: A northerner has moved to South
>Carolina and is sitting by the sea with a woman, saying: I'm starting to
>like it down here. It's like Lake Michigan, only wilder. This place is
>*crawling with critters*. (And then the woman answers how much she loves
>the place.)
>Would it be bugs he is talking about?
I guess he just means animals, I don't suppose he's enjoying the sandfleas.
Maybe he's trying to adapt even his accent, saying critters for creatures?
>Another question: A woman has left her husband despite the fact that they
>love each other, because "being married to him was killing me". For the
>daughter this is incomprehensible, and then the mother tries to explain:
>Let me put it this way. *We carried love to its conclusion.* She has just
>said that she still loves him, so what exatly does she mean?
This is getting philosophical :) maybe she means that they were exhausted
trying to live with their incompatibilies? I guess you can love someone
enormously and still run out of the energy needed to live with them.
HTH,
marga
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