The Songbirds of Pain by Garry Kilworth
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The document is a story about a woman named Anita who is struggling with her identity and sense of self. She believes that experiencing pain may help her reach her "quintessential spark" or true inner self. The story discusses themes of beauty, pain, love, and letting go. It mentions settings like a restaurant, hospital, and airport.
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The Songbirds of Pain by Garry Kilworth
- 7. 22
- 9. FANTAS Y
- 10. HISTORICAL WAR
- 25. M A R J O R I E
- 26. WI SER
- 27. Beauty
- 28. BeautyREAL
- 30. BRA ZIL
- 32. Algarez
- 43. “In there, deep inside, lay the quintessential spark of being, where she was pure Anita. To reach that spark, it was necessary to use an agent- drugs, medication, will, faith, religion or perhaps pain.
- 45. SCARS
- 46. SCARS Invisible
- 52. SCARS Invisible Blemishes Bruises GONENORM LA CRE Am CO MPLE XI ON
- 60. BEAUTY
- 61. StoryAnalysis
- 65. Setting Hospital
- 66. Setting Airport
- 69. Plot & Structure
- 70. THEME L VE
- 71. THEME P IN
- 72. THEME Letting Go
- 73. LESSON
- 75. CONCLUSION
Editor's Notes
- Married to Anette with 2 kids
- Married to Anette with 2 kids
- Age 15- 22 diff school; he loves writing stories. Let's Go to Golgotha' a short story which won short story competition
- Science fiction (In Solitary)
- Fantasy
- Historical war and even general fiction
- RAGTHORN; SofPain was shortlisted in WF award in 1984
- She is 26 yrs old, fabulous, pretty, young lady
- AT 20 SHOP ASSISTANT; philip supplies new fashion in the store that anitas working for
- Gave her a lift home
- AT 20 SHOP ASSISTANT
- Modeling, travel with the small fashion house he finance, they can be together
- Real beauty
- Real beauty
- Real beauty
- South America
- She needed him desperately
- Longing for his accompany
- Series of operation, talked about giving drugs up to a certain point as he doesn’t want her to become a morphine addict and she nodded understanding that she a great deal of pain is ahead of her. The doctor then talked about reconstructing evrything about her.
- Straightening all the defects and even breaking fingers.
- Outside the window, the birds were singing thus diverting her attention to the birds and not on his descriptions of the forthcoming operation.
- An aching that was difficult but not impossible to bear. Altho it bacame worst as the pain now is much horible . The pain filled her with intensity that she never imagined it could be possible.
- BEAST Pain, no bones… just the beast
- Pain started singing to her.it sang to her that over many days she felt thee sharp sweetness of the music giving her new awareness, lifting her to a higher plane of experience until she was dependent upon their presence.
- It was back again in breaking her legs. He was also unable to move due to the clamps in her body. She told the surgeon that she wanted the process to be huried so she could go back to Philip
- Blue-black skin
- Blue-black skin
- Blue-black skin
- She had her own color, her own songbird
- Far side of the room.
- He was looking directly at her but he did not recognize her. He looked away and searched for other passengers.
- She began walking towards him. Again, Philip looked at Anita but he did not recognize her. Her heart flooded with emotion. He was her life. He was everything for philip. She needed him, wanted him
- She began walking towards him. Again, Philip looked at Anita but he did not recognize her. Her heart flooded with emotion. He was her life. He was everything for philip. She needed him, wanted him
- She began walking towards him. Again, Philip looked at Anita but he did not recognize her. Her heart flooded with emotion. He was her life. He was everything for philip. She needed him, wanted him
- But she went through the exit. She was leaving him, she wanted him desperately but she was leaving him. She nurtured the hurt inside her.
- This was beauty. Her songbirds would be with her till death, and her indulgence in the music they created washed through her whole being and made her complete. Made the whole existence complete, for-everyone-even Philip.