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Irregularities

Irregularities is the name of the short story by Courtney Jones in this story we are introduced to an affair betwen a Doctor and his assistant. The Doctor, better knowned as James Soleander, lives a highclass life which he can afford since he is a well payed doctor. He has nice shoes and weares cashmere sweaters something that the narrator never really had contact with until she started working for him. They are from two differente stages in society. The narrator says that James Soloanders office is furnished better than her apartment and one can only imagine the state her appartment is in or imagine the amount of money that James Soleander is in possession of. James Soleander is a doctor and he is attracted to the narrators heartbeat which is irregular and it is fascinating to him since he is a doctor and he says that “there´s art in imperfection” and that “true beauty lies in nature´s mistakes”.

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Through out the short story the narrator gets more and more annoyed at James because she is carrying his baby and he dosent even notice that she is pregnate. But then again how should he?

She hasent even told him that she is pregnate. Their affair started of when James examined the narrator´s heartbeat and he got attracted to her right away, or more correctly her irregular heartbeat. He had bought the narrator two gifts which she has on her desk. The narrator knows that James has a wife but that dosent stop her from dreaming of a ...

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