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...At another meal, his mother is found to be — good Lord — from the north-east herself, his father hymning the shipyards with which Julie is meant to be fascinated. Around the table, she glazes over....
...The glaze influenced Japanese and eventually European and American ceramicists....
...The golden roofs over its telescopic chapel gables shelter green-glazed terracotta tiles with the arch-framed visage of Julie....
...If she’s trapped next to one at the dinner table, “I glaze over. I’d rather talk to a dentist.”...
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