I can understand perfectly !

He's a master storyteller!

Binge . . . I'll have an eclair.

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I am with you!

Guy de Maupassant is the master of short stories. Boule de Suif is wonderful!

I agree, I really enjoy his descriptions of nature and observations of human behaviors however he is also highly misanthropic.

Stone? What is a stone supposed to weigh? Ten kilos?

​@@doroparker17027kgs I believe

@@doroparker1702 A stone equals 14 lbs😊

I’d say it was pretty hefty in the 1930s .

​@@carolthomas8528 yep

Old dry sourdough tastes like soda crackers

Yes, have a cheat day once in awhile, lol.

I'm having a manhattan after that

Yes, I agree. The human voice is so precious, and this narrator could well be the best on here

I know eh? If they can't get robo voices right how will they get AI robots to work...?

What is the.matter with you? Politically correct?

The most honest line in the play. 😅

Agree!

I think that would probably depend on her height

That is 75 kilos, 20 kilos more than the ideal weight. Average height for women at times of Somerset Maughan was 160cm. 50-60 kilos would be a healthy weight for a woman of this height. American fat women have 120 - 160 kilos of weight. Just to show the difference.

We dont know their heights. If you're 5 feet tall and 154 pounds, it's the same as 5'5" at 180 pounds or 5'7" at 190. (Add 5 pounds for every inch.) That is unhealthy. It is officially obese. I am short and too fat. In my younger years, I ate much differently and was at a healthy weight. And I felt better.

Depends on her hught. If she is 4'9", very fat!

Botero has different style. Just go to any bookshop selling postcards. They might know it.

Exactly my thought at the end of this story. WOW !

Yes that was the ending

I loved the ending.

The rest happens in your imagination

Classic Maugham ending, leaves you hanging …..

The ending seemed too abrupt.

Try Adjusting the playback speed in settings.

Condensed? Yes, it seemed to end abruptly?! Speed was fine, and if too fast, can be adjusted to your preference.

I thought like Jude Law…

The bus driver found out I liked to cook He told me that his wife's best perfume was baked chicken!!!!!!!!!

Hardly. The men involved with these 3 knew they'd be very well fed.

@@kathyflorcruz552 and fed up. Indigestion is a many unsplendored thing physically and emotionally

Give it a few more months and those little „tells“ will be harder and harder to detect.

And neither is correct.

I thought the terminology was a bit odd at times😮

Sounded like a human narrator to me! So, either AI has enormously improved, or a slight error was made.

Why?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the social conventions of women have changed over the years, so I don't see this story as a put down. I think it is a truth of a former time, and the bonding in and independent spirits of these women were as real as today, even if different from today.

Misogyny was apparently the norm. The story is utterly offensive today.

​@@lyndaproper1313 Yes you are wrong.

@@---Dana---- Perhaps, but I'll tell you what makes me say what I did. In general, the development of social attitudes goes from pulling together a complex group of thoughts and facts into a pared down shorthand of the idea; outliers and anomalies are discarded, and subtleties fall by the wayside. First, the illustration at top is outrageous - but that's not Maugham's fault. The picture was chosen by the presenter of this video; I have seen other illustrations of the story that aren't mocking the women. Actually, I just ignored it. ("Would you care to partake of some of this?" "No thank you," was my answer.) Women of the story's era were obsessed with dieting and losing weight. It was a cultural thing, the culture those women swam through. Mass media- the development of advertising and nationally presented movies, etc.- began after WWI (1920's or so). Yes, the times were misogynistic; the images presented were conjured by men. That is what the women of those times had to deal with in some way or other. What Maugham presents, however, is a group of women whose prime loyalty and personal identity is bound up with a group of other women. He presents women who are not diffused by an orientation towards the men in their lives. Maugham was rare; this is what he takes the time to show us. (Look at other literature and media of the time.) So while the story is about misogynistic times, I don't find the story misogynistic. Please tell me why I'm wrong.

I'm a nincompoop, and the answer to your question is,"No."

@@lyndaproper1313 do you have fake eyelashes

@@user-rd6tf5yx3m Yes, I do. But they belong to my dog. She really likes getting made-up for special occasions.

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Maugham was the master of the abrupt ending. It's up to you, as to what happens next .

I don't like the abrupt ending, but the story is entertaining.

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