Ted Hughes is already dead, David. Died in 1998, I think. Right after Birthday Letters came out.
Sheesh. Thank goodness?
Still, what a sad legacy.
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2009 5:34:08 pm PDT #11819 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Kat - Mar 22, 2009 5:39:12 pm PDT #11820 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Absolutely. Poor Frieda, is what I was thinking.
Strix - Mar 22, 2009 5:45:10 pm PDT #11821 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Hemingways were, what, Ernest and Muriel? Or MArgeaux?
Yeah, I was thinking about the lover and baby too. Whenever I teach Plath, my students are always like WTFF? That is messed UP.
msbelle - Mar 22, 2009 5:48:32 pm PDT #11822 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Never read Plath and know virtually nothing of her - odd hole in the knowledge.
Strix - Mar 22, 2009 5:53:47 pm PDT #11823 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
msbelle, basically Plath was an amazing female poet during the 50's and 60's who married Ted Hughes, a male poet. Two kids, and she was hugesly depressed and suicidal before and during her marriage. Some postulate she was schizophrenic. Anyhoo, she killed herself by putting her head in a gas oven right as her work was starting to generate notice. Ted Hughes 2nd wife, with whom he was having an affair during his marriage with Plath, killed herself and her young child -- I think the same way as Plath.
Plath's work was very influential in the feminst movement, and her story is really pretty tragic.
Strix - Mar 22, 2009 5:55:35 pm PDT #11824 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
God, this is crass, but I need to read a biography of her. I've just read little bios -- I wonder if there's a really good one?
msbelle - Mar 22, 2009 5:59:00 pm PDT #11825 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
on the Hemingway front, his dad and granddaughter Margaux were the other suicides.
tommyrot - Mar 22, 2009 5:59:14 pm PDT #11826 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Plath also wrote the novel The Bell Jar.
The Bell Jar is American writer and poet Sylvia Plath's only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963. The novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The book is often regarded as a roman à clef, with the protagonist's descent into mental illness paralleling Plath's own experiences with what may have been either bipolar disorder or clinical depression. Plath committed suicide a month after its first publication.
Dana - Mar 22, 2009 6:40:24 pm PDT #11827 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Is it weird that I kind of want to go read the Bible so I have context for Kings, but I don't want to spoil myself?
Glamcookie - Mar 22, 2009 7:08:43 pm PDT #11828 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
No. I used to tell my DW not to tell me stuff about Caesar during Rome. I'd yell, "Historical spoilers! Historical spoilers!"