sylvia plath's copy of the great gatsbyi don't know why, but i get the distinct feeling that sylvia might be embarrassed by the reveal of her choice of underlined passages. maybe it's because recently my friend nabbed my copy of perks of being a wallflower (from a give away pile, i swear) from my room and told me i'd underlined much of it back in the day. how embarrassing. there's something personal about what we underline in books. remember in wuthering heights, when lockwood reads catherine's bible, and she's written mad things in the margins? by reading her notes he's basically reading her diary and then it awakens her ghost. bam.
When we read the Great Gatsby in English class, junior year of HS, the biggest airhead in my class copied that same quote into her Facebook.
ReplyDeletesylvia plath WOULD underline that.
ReplyDeleteYOU underlined THIS.
"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
Oh! The dichotomies!
UUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHH
ReplyDeletelarn is so cruel
ReplyDeletewhat is the title from? "my lass is breaking" thanks!
ReplyDeleteI woke up with it written on a piece of paper- it's from a book but I can't remember which one
DeleteI figured it out! John Berryman - dream songs
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