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Chapter 11: Friday, October 26, 2018

4:27 PM

• Paul D: moved out of 124 ○ He's used to fucking Sethe on the daily ○ But he's been sleeping in the couch lately • He was having house fits and he believes that it's because of women (bottom 115) ○ "…always he associated the house-fit with the woman in it." ○ However, he fell in love with Sethe daily ○ "also in this house-fit there was no anger, no suffocation, no yearning to be elsewhere. He just could not, would not, sleep upstairs or in the rocker or, now, in Baby Suggs’ bed. So he went to the storeroom." § He feels like he's home but there's soemthing wrong with the way he's sleeping § It was like for a while until one day he didn’t want to be in the storeroom • Beloved found Paul D in the storeroom and tried to fuck him ○ Paul D: "When good people take you in and treat you good, you ought to try to be good back. You don’t . . . Sethe loves you. Much as her own daughter. You know that.”" ○ Beloved insists that he "touch me. On the inside part. And you have to call me my name" § I think she craves love and attnetion - hurt of how Sethe doesn't love her as much as she loves Sethe § She reiterates "call me my name… pelase call it. I'll go if you call it." ○ Beloved's presence: "he didn't hear the whipster that the flakes of rust made

either as they fell away from the seams of his tobacco tin. So when the lid gave he didn’t know."...