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An old man who lives near Lucy’s farm. Unlike Lucy, Ettinger has decked his property out with all kinds of security, fearing attacks like the one Lucy and David experience. After this attack, Ettinger advises Lucy and David to buy some guns, offering to lend them one of his own for the time being. And although Ettinger’s hypervigilance is perhaps validated by what happens to David and Lucy, they tend to view him as a paranoid old man.
Ettinger Quotes in Disgrace
The Disgrace quotes below are all either spoken by Ettinger or refer to Ettinger. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 12 Quotes
Spoken without irony, the words stay with him and will not go away. Bill Shaw believes that if he, Bill Shaw, had been hit over the head and set on fire, then he, David Lurie, would have driven to the hospital and sat waiting, without so much as a newspaper to read, to fetch him home. Bill Shaw believes that, because he and David Lurie once had a cup of tea together, David Lurie is his friend, and the two of them have obligations towards each other. Is Bill Shaw wrong or right? Has Bill Shaw, who was born in Hankey, not two hundred kilometres away, and works in a hardware shop, seen so little of the world that he does not know there are men who do not readily make friends, whose attitude toward friendships between men is corroded with scepticism? Modern English friend from Old English freond, from freon, to love. Does the drinking of tea seal a love-bond, in the eyes of Bill Shaw? Yet but for Bill and Bev Shaw, but for old Ettinger, but for bonds of some kind, where would he be now? On the ruined farm with the broken telephone amid the dead dogs.
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This passage occurs after Bill Shaw picks David up from the hospital and, when David thanks him, says, “What else are friends for?” After Lucy’s farm is attacked by three strangers, Lucy fetches Ettinger, who drives them off the farm and brings David to the hospital before taking Lucy to the police station. When David emerges, he’s surprised to find Bill waiting for him, since he doesn’t think of Bill as a close friend. In fact, he has only had one real interaction with Bill, and didn’t even take a liking to him. David finds both Bill and his wife, Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint aperiam consequatur. Minima porro perferendis. Sit neque odit. Tenetur qui dignissimos. Qui et ut. Voluptate labore corpori
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Ettinger Character Timeline in Disgrace
The timeline below shows where the character Ettinger appears in Disgrace. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 11
...on the other hand, remains calm, informing her father that she’s walking to her neighbor Ettinger’s house to get help. Before she leaves, she says, “You tell what happened to you,...
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Chapter 12
Lucy returns with Ettinger in his truck, which they use to take David to the hospital for his burns....
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Chapter 14
The next day, Ettinger calls and tells David they can borrow one of his guns until they get their...
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