Market-Girl

A Story by Abishai100

A vignette about a political writer who finds romance/sentiment in a 'Market-Girl' who embodies inspiration-dunes.

A tale of an ambitious political writer who meets a woman who further inspires him to think more 'sensitively' about his work and hence moves him to refer to her as his 'Market-Girl' of miracle dots.

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Amlan is a Dartmouth professor writing a novel about the Provos-IRA (Northern Ireland) and its long struggle to obtain more economic equity in sectarian Belfast through armed engagements, guerrilla warfare, and covert politics, sometimes linked to the legal negotiation body Sinn Fein. He's got family relations to the Algerian and Indian independence movements/revolutions and started learning about the symbolism behind sectarian-politics driven political reform talk in Western civilization at Dartmouth while he was an undergrad.

He often visits a local New England bookstore/shop where he spends time sitting and perusing the latest or classic works on European/UK politics and culture/history and what would inform his own P-IRA work about the 'development' of left-political thinking in Western civilization catalyzed by sociocultural differences, as quite distinct from non-Western dilemmas like Israel-Palestine. His studies and readings at the bookshop remind him of the social imagination behind accessed politico-cultural ideas in the West regarding wrought inter-religious living (e.g., Belfast), and so his time at this bookshop fosters his sense of writing-diarism/journalism.

The P-IRA was formed after the first treaty of independence in the early 20th Century which established the first 'Irish Free-State' unfortunately also led to the formal 'partition' of mainland Ireland into Ireland and Northern Ireland (capital: Belfast) because of the 'settled' British-Protestant demographic majority population living there as descendants of English colonials. This partition led to socioeconomic strains/disparities between the British-Protestant majority and Irish-Catholic minority population trying to coexist despite sociocultural differences, and this in turn has formed new kinds of street-anarchy/unrest (between the IRA and British police and Protestant-sympathetic Ulster Volunteer Force!).

All this sensitive-work consciousness for Amlan, a respected New England Ivy League professor (Dartmouth), has afforded him the unique chance to foster/develop his literature/history sense of human life/culture. He spends time at the bookshop and he spends time reading various views/editorials/writings on the 'secret' or 'trick' to writing itself. Amlan's developing his more 'emotional' mind to offer a work-in-writing catering to his sense of wonder and curiosity about the human condition itself in troubled/sectarian Belfast, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), where various legal/peaceful affirmative-action employment assistance program policy reform-talks between Sinn Fein and British Parliament might foster a new sense of social/inter-religious life in the UK, a subject worth understanding how to write.

He lives in a campus apartment most of his time but sometimes commutes to Boston to stay/write in his more comfy and spacious urban condo-loft/apartment which boasts a terrific city-window view. He'll sit in front of his window and just jot down notes and ideas about what/how to write about this sensitive problem regarding strained inter-religious coexistence in delicate Belfast (Northern Ireland). In fact, this Boston condo-apartment has become his 'writing-den' and helps him 'hash-out' ideas regarding the wrought face of modern life in a world more pensive about pluralism (commerce, religion, etc.). This Boston 'writing-pad' helps Amlan conceive of the experience of being an American writer!

One day, while at the bookshop in New England, Amlan engages with a very pretty Scottish-American woman named Isla who's very intrigued by his new novel-idea about sectarian negotiations and living life in troubled Northern Ireland (UK) and strikes up many chats with her as she begins to 'regular' the bookshop as often as he does, and they start to develop real feelings for each other. Amlan is now moved to make Isla a 'character' in his introspective writing about his own 'intellectual journey' about understanding inter-religious community sentimentalism in Western civilization and realizes he's met a real 'gem' in the world in Isla, whom he now affectionately calls 'Market-Girl' (in reference to an Irish term for market-time on occasion and in general a term for an 'angel' or 'muse' of world-diamonds).

Amlan decided to make Isla a special V-day heart-quilt to reflect his developed sense of magical optimism and romantic-love for her, and he confided in her that he's found a special 'muse' for his IRA novel, since prior to meeting her, his inspiration was mostly through personal family histories (Algeria/India) and education at Dartmouth and not through 'personal' commentaries from people/descendants of the actual area of the United Kingdom and Ireland/Scotland/Wales.