#it's so.... 50s nuclear family but bunny corcoran never had a nuclear family. how can he desire something he never had.

[barnbridges]

there's something visceral about.... marion probably knows well enough that bunny doesn't have a fucking bank account at the age of 24 but randomly believed her friend when she said she saw him at a bank, that he randomly became obsessed with murder out of the blue one day and then died and his friends didn't miss him, that his best friend was absolutely ... a sight to behold at the funeral, that the corcorans are neither warm nor really fond of her (where is she talking to his mother? they were planning on having kids together and his parents never spoke to her the whole time she was there), that brady corcoran specifically is described as the least like bunny himself, that they invited "a ton" of people from hampden college but none of her friends (but random people they don't know??? and bunny didn't know that well either??? sure) are ever mentioned being there, they didn't even speak to her when he was presumed missing, but she went right back there and dealt with them for at least another 10 years, and tied herself to them eternally through blood.

#again love in this book is literally #the twisted and the ugly and the bizarre #a feeling that's not aesthetic nor is it really based off what's normal but rather what's visceral and raw and mildly rotten #and their relationship is just... #ripe #it's so.... 50s nuclear family but bunny corcoran never had a nuclear family. how can he desire something he never had. #the secret history #bunny corcoran #what does he even desire? we'll never know #anyway something visceral and ripe and rotten at the core in their relationship and they were married ok #they might as well have been #there's something so.... ugly #in everything they ever do #but at the same time what is true love if not trying to ressurect your dead boyfriend in richard papen words #“for reasons known only to themselves” #bitch they dont miss him #his parents dont care #they never cared #his brothers probably are too traumatized and emotionally stunted themselves to have one thought about it #she cares she brought him back #she's such a delulu girl i adore #her straight audacity