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Becky didn\u2019t move. The Devil song went on, and ended; the next one began. \u201cHansel and Gretel are alive and well And they\u2019re living in Berlin.\u201d Gentian should have liked this song, but it always irritated her. She got up and paused the disk. \u201cThink of something else I\u2019d be good at,\u201d said Becky as Gentian passed her on her way back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m giving up poetry.\u201d Gentian looked at her. The last poet who had made her say that was Emily Dickinson, and the one before that was Tolkien. She did not altogether see how Laurie Anderson fit into this progression. \u201cSongs are different,\u201d she said. \u201cBut that\u2019s the kind of thing I want to do,\u201d said Becky. She reflected. \u201cWell, one of them.\u201d \u201cWhat is?\u201d \u201cThat song. It\u2019s got images that add up to something and it\u2019s funny and it\u2019s serious and it\u2019s snarky and it\u2019s about important things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, so does your stuff.\u201d \u201cNot like that.\u201d \u201cWell, you\u2019re just starting out.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll never be able to do anything like that.\u201d \u201cWell, you\u2019ll do something different that\u2019s just as good, then.\u201d Becky shook her head mournfully and climbed into bed, where she sat staring into space. Gentian sighed and started the CD player again. She might as well enjoy the rest of the record. Becky had not had an attack of the Poetics like this for some time. Gentian got her telescope book out of the suitcase and sat reading it and listening to the music.<\/p>\n

She tried to think of an astronomer who would make her think, \u201cI\u2019ll never be able to do anything like that.\u201d Certainly she was unlikely to do the equivalent of inventing differential calculus or a new kind of telescope, but she was perfectly confident about being able to find interesting things and have insights about them. \u201cI think I\u2019m obsessed,\u201d said Becky suddenly. Gentian put the book down. \u201cWith what?\u201d \u201cWhom.\u201d \u201cMicky?\u201d Becky nodded. She looked miserable. \u201cI keep thinking how much more fun the Giant Ants\u2019 party would be if he were there too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGood grief.\u201d \u201cAnd it probably wouldn\u2019t. I know he doesn\u2019t appreciate Steph and he thinks Alma\u2019s weird for not having any black friends.\u201d \u201cAnd what does he think of Erin?\u201d \u201cHe thinks she\u2019s cool.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s something.\u201d There was a pause. Becky chewed on the end of one braid, which she had not done since she was eight. I won\u2019t ask, thought Gentian; then she thought, if I can\u2019t ask, what\u2019s the point of anything; then she thought, but it\u2019s all right for some things to remain unsaid; and finally she thought, but this is what\u2019s wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what does he think of me?\u201d She tried not to sound aggressive or demanding. \u201cHe knows you\u2019re my best friend,\u201d said Becky, \u201cso he doesn\u2019t express an opinion.\u201d \u201cBut?\u201d \u201cHe thinks we\u2019re cliquish and snobbish and unwelcoming.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re not a social club, for God\u2019s sake.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary is a work of fiction. All the characters, locations, products, and events are products of the author’s imagination, or are used fictionally. Any resemblance to real people, places, things, or events are strictly coincidental. Sonnet XII of Epitaph for the Race of Man by Edna St. Vincent Millay. From Collected Poems, HarperCollins. Copyright \u00a9 1934, 1962 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis.<\/p>\n

All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Holly Peppe, literary executor. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to quote from John M. Ford’s Growing Up Weightless, copyright \u00a9 1993. Published by Bantam Books. Reprinted by permission of the author. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to quote from the songs \u201cBeautiful Red Dress,\u201d \u201cRamon,\u201d \u201cThe Day the Devil,\u201d and \u201cThe Dream Before,\u201d all from the album Strange Angels by Laurie Anderson, copyright \u00a9 1989 by Difficult Music. The translation of Sappho’s fragment 94, translated by Ewen Bowie, is from The Oxford History of the Classical World edited by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray, copyright \u00a9 1986, and is used by permission of Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 1998 by Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the express written permission of the author. Cover design by David Dyer-Bennet. Published by Blaisdell Press www.dd-b.net\/blaisdellpress. Smashwords ebook edition first published 1-Mar-2016. This is the Smashwords ebook edition V1.0, 21-Feb-2016.<\/p>\n

OceanofPDF.com To David, To Elise, and to Raphael OceanofPDF.com Acknowledgments The author is much obliged to Laurie Campbell, David Dyer-Bennet, Lydia Nickerson, and Beth Friedman, for commentary; to Jan Murphy and Richard Knowles, for the loan of their telescope books; to Karen Uhrig, for advice on astronomical detail and psychology; to Hilary Hertzoff, for recommended reading; to Patricia Wrede, Elise Matthesen, and Caroline Stevermer, for support and patience; and to Emma Bull, Steven Brust, Raphael Carter, Kara Dalkey, and Will Shetterly, for detailed and honest opinions.<\/p>\n

OceanofPDF.com Table of Contents Copyright Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 OceanofPDF.com JUNIPER, GENTIAN, & ROSEMARY OceanofPDF.com Chapter 1 There was a new house next door to Gentian\u2019s. The lot it occupied had been vacant since before she was born.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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