Édouard Manet, Gare Saint-Lazare (1873)
Adèle, Make sure you’re keeping your frock clean, don’t lean against those dirty railings…
But Sophie, isn’t this so exciting? I’m so, so, sooo excited!
Mind you don’t get your head stuck between the…
Look, Sophie, this train is getting ready to go!
Come away from the railings, Adèle…
And is it true, the boat we will go to England on, will it too have a big chimney with black smoke coming out?
I expect so. Come away…
And will I be sea-sick? And will I like England?
Ah, that I cannot tell, Adèle.
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3rd Manet-logue (a dialogue, actually): a creative writing exercise based on Édouard Manet’s Gare Saint-Lazare (1873) and on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
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