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Mairead. Don't tell me! I fully agree with you! I think Plath was a highbrow and NOT AT ALL a miserable individual! She was assertive and very productive. Funny, though, how the world goes in a marry-go-round. And here it comes again the beginning of the end. Until someone will get annoyed or disturbed and will start addressing silly messages to this and that, an action for which he will have to repent. Since everything can be recorded. Especially in literary matters. The eternal return of the identical. Today, I am blind. I looked for a long time at the sun until I decided it was noxious. And here it comes someone who is able to reestablish an order. I have more than once upset a whole Cafe' by laughing. Which in my language was weeping. For all that I've said, your letter has to be regarded as exclusively addressed to ALLY. Here is a more reasonable request. I am singing at a garden fete on Friday and if you have a decent suit just come. I don't understand the world the world rightly does not understand me. Me and you, we do not understand each other. The language does not serve its job. I shall call to say farewell and adieu. (incommunicability continues to flourish) You will oblige me very much if you will write to me and tell what you think. I shall read your letter with great anxiety Suzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Cc: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 1:57 PM Subject: Re: Plath as a miserable, self-obsessed b*****r > Dear Ally and Susanne, > I have to disagree with this assessment of Plath, who was fully occupied > most of the time and had a clear and precise eye: her poems attest to her > intense interest in things outside herself -- for me they often have the > attention and accuracy of Hopkins' letters. > Mairead > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Ally Kerr wrote: > > > Dear Susanne, > > > > Jane Austen, in Persuasion, suggests that folk who are depressed should avoid reading poetry.... She's probably got a point: so many poets are miserable self-obsessed b****rs like Plath! On the other hand, when us students were depressed in the 60s, we used to listen to a Leonard Cohen LP and then we knew there was someone who felt worse than we did. Cheered us up no end. The Rev Sydney Smith said read humour and get out a lot. > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Ally Kerr > > __________________________________________ > > Sent by Sofcom Mail - The world's coolest and safest FREE email service. > > http://www.sofcom.com.au > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%