Playing in the Dark

by Toni Morrison

1983 I believe, I read Marie Cardinal’s The Words To Say It. More

Gripped by panic at the idea of dying there in the middle of spasms, stomping feet, and the crowd howling, I ran into the street like someone possessed.”

by her analyst, and by the eminent doctor, Bruno Bettelheim, who wrote both the Preface and the Afterword. None of them is interested in what ignited

become; it tore at the nerves of those [other than Armstrong, apparently] who followed it” [italics mine].

white camellia “svelte in appearance but torn apart inside.”