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I do experience these layers as a bit mysterious. That there were in her time probably received ideas about the authors whose names she drops that are more complex than what we remember about them. I feel too that part of the story is that they (or the girls at least) live away from the city and don't travel. They participate in the metropolis only when their uncle brings them a pamphlet or something. it's not really clear to me how up Dorothea is on the goings-on of her age.

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Thanks for raising that question, how up on things she is. Will have to think further on that, and definitely a good thing to track as we read along!

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Still haven’t found the Key.

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