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[โ€“] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

For the girls themselves, so ambivalent a father-lover-schoolmaster relationship might create certain psychological stresses. But for Kemal it provided the family background he needed, one from which irksome ties of blood were missing, and in which wife and children became in effect one.

This is an aside? Lol "certain psychological stresses". One could just as easily describe it as a whitewashing. But good for Kemal, he got what he needed!

[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

I mean, yes, it is literally an aside just before the end of the chapter.

If true, it's abhorrent. But I'm disinclined, for reasons stated above, to think it's true at this point in time.