LOUISE, a short story by Somerset Maugham

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  • čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
  • Part of Somerset Maugham's classic short stories.
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Komentáře • 33

  • @luzvaldes1030
    @luzvaldes1030 Před 3 dny +1

    Charming story… it appears that quite a few of us have a Louise in our lives.

  • @Shineon83
    @Shineon83 Před 13 dny +6

    Oh, dear Somerset-I DO so love your wicked, wicked wit ❤

  • @elisekuby2009
    @elisekuby2009 Před 21 dnem +7

    He had her number, right from the beginning! And nothing of value was lost when this monster departed this earthly plane.

  • @oceanaoushn8803
    @oceanaoushn8803 Před měsícem +11

    And the world became a better place.

    • @Riklott1111
      @Riklott1111 Před měsícem +4

      And two more husbands are allowed to live

  • @user-lt6rh1vz3f
    @user-lt6rh1vz3f Před měsícem +7

    Thaks for another new-to-me story.

  • @Riklott1111
    @Riklott1111 Před měsícem +8

    Excellent!

  • @twhitney4093
    @twhitney4093 Před 10 dny +5

    Louise sounds just like my BPD neighbour! She always needs to be taken care of and always has some mysterious new, life-threatening illness when it's convenient 😂😂

    • @sunnylife7934
      @sunnylife7934 Před dnem

      It’s funny how cash makes a significant contribution to mental illness. The poor can’t afford to tolerate people like her. When I tried to manipulate my mother or grandmother with a claim of being ill, they’d say ‘do some housework you’ll feel better.’

  • @JoanKentBible
    @JoanKentBible Před 4 dny

    Louise never new inner peace and her victims never had the inner strength to handle her. "Human" nature was not a mystery to Somerset Maugham. He understood human obsession. Another gripping story, beautiful image and music that Louise would have lost herself in, for a while, whilst dancing. Thank you, neuralsurfer.

  • @alidabaxter5849
    @alidabaxter5849 Před 14 dny +3

    I love this story, because I knew a woman exactly like her - my ex mother in law. She never ceased taking, under any circumstances, and considered she'd married beneath her. Whatever she had, she was dying of it, and if anyone suggested a cure she'd say a cure might kill her and then they'd never forgive themselves. I'd have forgiven myself easily, because nothing wrong with anyone else affected or worried her in any way and in her opinion going to bed if you had a high fever only made you weak. Her husband constantly deferred to her in every way and accompanied her to doctors but if they said something she didn't like she ignored them. She didn't have a heart condition but was absolutely sure she had cancer of some kind or another. I'm sure she lived to a great old age and probably continued to dominate her son, my ex husband, from beyond the grave.

  • @skytten64
    @skytten64 Před měsícem +6

    I Love to find a New channel ❤..Thanks a Lot.. from Sweden ❤☀️

  • @joanndavis1450
    @joanndavis1450 Před 27 dny +5

    Wonderful jazz to begin and end wonderful stories. Thank you so much. Goodbye Louise.

  • @lisaharvey9940
    @lisaharvey9940 Před 19 dny +4

    Hilarious! Thank you!

  • @brendabiffibaldovino8306
    @brendabiffibaldovino8306 Před 5 hodinami

    Thanks so much for sharing ❤❤❤

  • @engste678
    @engste678 Před měsícem +6

    Sounds like my ex, in a lot of ways ! 😂
    I enjoy the stories, thanks.

  • @adrianobastardi
    @adrianobastardi Před 23 dny +3

    A mistress of cold praise.

  • @TomHyland-mk4ki
    @TomHyland-mk4ki Před 16 dny +1

    Gosh!

  • @Victoria-cy2bh
    @Victoria-cy2bh Před 8 dny

    She sounds like my mother in law 🤣

  • @rodolfocadena9918
    @rodolfocadena9918 Před 21 dnem +1

    SALUDOS POR PRIMERA VEZ EN SESENTA AÑOS EXISTE CLARIDAD EN LOS PROGRAMAS DE LOS CONTENDIENTES EN LAS ELECCIONES DEL PROXIMO 2 DE JUNIO OJALA EXISTA CLARIDAD TAMIEN EN LOS VOTANTES, A PESAR DE LA PROPAGANDA SUCIA Y LAS MENTIRAS.

  • @kathleenellenford4816
    @kathleenellenford4816 Před 13 dny

    👏🏻👏🏻❤

  • @patryvjamarek1444
    @patryvjamarek1444 Před 14 dny

    Thanks❤

  • @australiainfelix7307
    @australiainfelix7307 Před 29 dny +3

    Female solipsism write large.

    • @JoanKentBible
      @JoanKentBible Před 4 dny

      From Oxford languages "the quality of being very self-centred or selfish.
      "she herself elicits scant sympathy, such is her solipsism and lack of self-awareness"
      PHILOSOPHY
      the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.
      "solipsism is an idealist thesis because ‘Only my mind exists’ entails ‘Only minds exist’"

  • @alicecarroll2007
    @alicecarroll2007 Před 12 dny

    Louise-the master manipulator.

  • @kellym.9453
    @kellym.9453 Před 26 dny +2

    🌱❣️😁💬💬👍