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*Book I § The Silver Spoon § 11 | Now my mother <i>'''gets up'''</i> from the so-called love seat.
 
*Book I § The Silver Spoon § 11 | Now my mother <i>'''gets up'''</i> from the so-called love seat.
 
*Book I § The Silver Spoon § 11 | Now my father <i>'''gets up'''</i> to make his rounds, turning out light, locking doors.
 
*Book I § The Silver Spoon § 11 | Now my father <i>'''gets up'''</i> to make his rounds, turning out light, locking doors.
*Book I § The Silver Spoon § 13 | Now, in the church basement, she told Chapter Eleven to run off and play with the other children while she <i>'''got''' a cup of coffee</i> to restore herself.
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*Book I § The Silver Spoon § 13 | Now, in the church basement, she told Chapter Eleven to run off and play with the other children while she <i>'''got''' a cup of coffee to</i> restore herself.
 
*Book I § The Silver Spoon § 14 | He was trying to fill a coffee cup, but once he <i>'''got''' the tap '''open'''</i> he couldn't <i>'''get''' it '''closed'''</i>.
 
*Book I § The Silver Spoon § 14 | He was trying to fill a coffee cup, but once he <i>'''got''' the tap '''open'''</i> he couldn't <i>'''get''' it '''closed'''</i>.
 
*Book I § The Silver Spoon § 17 | Awakened by my parents rushing off to the hospital, he'd <i>'''gotten out''' of bed</i> and gone downstairs to make himself a cup of coffee.
 
*Book I § The Silver Spoon § 17 | Awakened by my parents rushing off to the hospital, he'd <i>'''gotten out''' of bed</i> and gone downstairs to make himself a cup of coffee.
 
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*Book II § Matchmaking § 19 | (Her memoirs, which end shortly before her suicide, make unsatisfactory reading, and it was after finishing them years ago that I first <i>'''got''' rhe idea to</i> write my own.)
  
 
===Conversation===
 
===Conversation===

Revision as of 12:43, 27 April 2012

Perhaps perverse, but it seems like Middlesex would be an excellent novel in which to study the [i]middle voice[i].

On a first reading, I intend to pull all the instances of "get" that I don't miss. Afterwards, though, it's clear that Book I has a very interesting number of "pathetic fallacies" or "paysage d'état d'âme", doors, eyes, fires, all with a sense of sentient purpose !


Occurences of get

Agentive subject

Narrative

  • Book I § The Silver Spoon § 11 | We may get another boy
  • Book I § The Silver Spoon § 11 | Now my mother gets up from the so-called love seat.
  • Book I § The Silver Spoon § 11 | Now my father gets up to make his rounds, turning out light, locking doors.
  • Book I § The Silver Spoon § 13 | Now, in the church basement, she told Chapter Eleven to run off and play with the other children while she got a cup of coffee to restore herself.
  • Book I § The Silver Spoon § 14 | He was trying to fill a coffee cup, but once he got the tap open he couldn't get it closed.
  • Book I § The Silver Spoon § 17 | Awakened by my parents rushing off to the hospital, he'd gotten out of bed and gone downstairs to make himself a cup of coffee.
  • Book II § Matchmaking § 19 | (Her memoirs, which end shortly before her suicide, make unsatisfactory reading, and it was after finishing them years ago that I first got rhe idea to write my own.)

Conversation

  • Book I § The Silver Spoon § 15 | Did you get burned?
  • Book I § The Silver Spoon § 15 | He gets into everything.

Non-agentive subject / Passive Voice

  • Book I § The Silver Spoon § 6 | In the spring of 1959 when discussions of my fertilization got under way, my mother couldn't foresee that women would soon be burning their brassieres by the thousand.
  • Book I § The Silver Spoon § 15 | Standing at the window, my brother wanted more than anything to believe in an American god who got resurrected on the right day