491 Elizabeth Bishop (with Megan Marshall)
The History of Literature
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The Art of Losing Isn't Hard to Master
It was a conscious aesthetic choice to say I'll universalize this by taking out some of the more personal details because that will make it about me and about my localized issue. Yeah yeah she presented the fact that the men could get away with drinking so much Hemingway and others you know whereas she went for a woman to be drinking was just truly shameful. She felt it was shameful and wished he could overcome it but really really couldn't. So as an orphan grown up she never felt entirely safe or grounded or when she did it was when she was in a love relationship That seemed secure but how secure could that be in the world that we're in which is so you know she had to
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