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"I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.
I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point in which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.
Let them become the photograph on the table.
Let them become the name on the trust accounts.
Let go of them in the water.
Knowing this does not make it any easier..."
Amen, sister. ...more
I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point in which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.
Let them become the photograph on the table.
Let them become the name on the trust accounts.
Let go of them in the water.
Knowing this does not make it any easier..."
Amen, sister. ...more
Joan Didion's husband dies suddenly after their daughter is hospitalised over Christmas for a severe bout of pneumonia. Labelled a 'cool customer', Didion is left alone to pick up the pieces of her life and come to terms with her grief.
It is natural for Didion as a writer to turn to the written word for answers, and she begins to intellectualise her emotions as part of her coping strategy.
At certain parts the memoir is haunting, terrifying in its shell-shocked portrayal of loss. Occasionally tho ...more
It is natural for Didion as a writer to turn to the written word for answers, and she begins to intellectualise her emotions as part of her coping strategy.
At certain parts the memoir is haunting, terrifying in its shell-shocked portrayal of loss. Occasionally tho ...more
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