[Re-reading As Meat Loves Salt] Ch. 12 At Liberty
"Ferris made faces, gasping and gaping in imitation of my lumpkin ways. 'I never thought you would be so taken by these vanities,' he said. 'Are you pining after ribbons and feathers?'"
I love the overall softness of this chapter, spitting old men in the face aside. Also, their arguing, and the hand-holding, it's so sweet! And the discussing of whether to leave it all to plow fields. Jacob is so on top of his temper here, I just wanna congratulate him. Considering his reaction when he and his brothers were moved to the mainhouse, I'm sure he still remembers a thing or two about back-breaking work.
I wonder why Jacob calls Ferris Christopher when he talks to Aunt. I don't think he ever calls Ferris by his name to his face. Maybe it's nothing, but I always pause when I see it, unlike the first time Fat Tommy called Jacob by his given name. Had to rewind because when Tommy said he'd done it, I couldn't believe my eyes.
Tell you what other passage makes me pause: Not even I could look on him and be jealous. Jacob Cullen was patient! -- and I think I loved him during those months as I never loved friend before or since.
Probably the since only stretches until the start of the next dialogue, but to me it reads like we're suddenly taken out of the tale Jacob's telling, and it's him in the present with the reader, dropping a vague, worrying spoiler about a later part of the tale before diving back in. Also, the "I think". Mostly that.
I must've missed the mentioning of Jacob's accent. It's somewhere by the bit where the London soldiers gather around to see cows for the first time














