… I have something to say! I’d tell him, and the door would stop midway. When you think of two things to say, pick your favourite and only say that, my mother suggested once, as a tip to polite social behaviour, and the rule was later modified to one in three. This suggests a tension in the telling of the story that is to follow, in terms of how it will be communicated. She points out that as far as her parents were concerned, what was being said was not of value so much as the ‘extravagant abundance, their inexhaustible flow’, and that occasionally she was asked to start her stories ‘in the middle’ and ‘skip the beginning’. The story opens with the narrator, Rosemary Cooke, reflecting on a home video featuring her and her mother and how she cannot remember the actual words being said only their verbose quantity.
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