A post by Ms. Baroque that has really hit me hard. Especially the one quote from a letter Ted Hughes wrote about his horrifying-beyond-belief years of 1963, 1969:
I have an idea of those two episodes as steel doors shutting down over great parts of myself, leaving me that much less, just what was left, to live on.
Just what was left to live on.
That is my fear. Not that it WILL happen, but that it already has.
Chicago is waiting, rather impatiently, for u, Miss Sheila! HOw about awalk to the fozen ice chunks known as Lake Michigan..and then a huge coffee at Caribou Coffee on Broadway????????????
Sheila, it is awful, isn’t it. I’m glad you responded to that because I felt almost unqualified even to write it… I’ve got 3,500 words to write about his collected letters – and I was prepared to be daunted, but not to be moved almost to tears in the underground on the first day I opened the book!
Hope all’s well with you.
Oh and guys – do read the Joyce at the end! It’s great.
Ms. Baroque – I have been on a Joyce tear these days (Ahem) – so I was so so happy to see Joyce included in your moving post. It was totally perfect.
I am dying to read Hughes’ letters. I look forward to more posts about him from you.
Sheila – you are always an inspiration to me to stay true to myself – even after your personal doors of steel doors shutting – you are always THERE.