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In addition to Brecht’s typical didacticism, there is a haunting passage for a fishwife whose son died in one of Lucullus’s campaigns.
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Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net.
—Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
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Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net.
—Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
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“Fishwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fishwife. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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