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once had a garden. I can remember the smell of the turned earth, theplump shapes of bulbs held in the hands, fullness, the dry rustle of seedsthrough the fingers.
Juxtaposed with the Commander's Wife, the artificial neatness. The fakeness. The inauthenticity
Symbol of fertility dwindling, and she feels that when she had been fertile, time went faster. Now, time is always threatening her, being menacing.
AND, she connects this to the motif of emptiness and fullness. Time passes nicely when she is full -- fertile.
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