1 result for (book:ur1 AND session:679 AND stemmed:financi)
3/95 (3%)
mystical
Linden
photograph
n.y
church
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Your mother felt, then, that each played a fitting part in the marriage, in that your father had in her eyes great prospects, and she had given him two sons. It was only later that she felt he had not fulfilled his part of the bargain, and that you began to feel insecure. She had forced herself to focus all of her great emotional power into the marriage structure as they both understood it; but your father would not concentrate his own abilities into the cultural and financial structure as he had agreed to do in the tacit contract.
She had forced herself to contain her own reality in conventional terms — but to her way of thinking, he refused to use his energy in the accepted social and financial structure that each of them had accepted.
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(Picking up the photo of me:) Not in this picture, but quite alive, was your brother Linden. You insisted upon using your abilities, and tried for years to fit them into the commercial pattern, where they were accepted financially and socially, and in terms of your self-image. Finally you grew outside of the structure.10 When you did, you made the artificial division in which good art would not sell — but you would do it anyway.
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