6/2/2023 0 Comments May sarton solitude![]() It is always expensive, and I will not waste my time. Why? I suppose because any meeting with another human being is collision for me now. ![]() I hate small talk with a passionate hatred. The things I cannot stand, that make me flare up like a cat making a fat tail, are pretentiousness, smugness, the coarse grain that often show itself in turn of phrase. “I am an ornery character, often hard to get along with. Sarton’s initial description holds a sincere, startling, simple candor: Sarton stated that in the latter novel, people felt that in her they had found an intimate friend, but with Journal, she attempted to shatter that image and produce a reality of herself that was stark and intense, yet honest. Published in 1973, Journal of a Solitude is a response to her novel Plant Dreaming Deep. As a writer, she wrote a number of novels, poems and memoirs, mostly a commentary on her life and experiences on aging, friendship, depression, lesbianism, doubt, failure, the simple pleasures of life, and other personal musings. Born in Belgium, when German troops invaded the country, Sarton’s family fled to England, then to Boston, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() content, and being a Canadian I wasn’t at all familiar with May Sarton. I’m finding the remaining biographies heavy on U.S. Introducing Journal of a Solitude, another out-of-order book for my WEM Biographies Project. ![]()
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