i.
Mary Meyer was an enigmatic woman in life, and in death her real personality lurks just out of view. Her life was domestic and private, as were the lives of her female friends. As independent as she seemed to her female friends, it is unlikely any of the men in Mary's life ever thought of her as an equal. She and her friends were surely affected by the condescension of their men, an attitude that has survived the decades since her death. "Who wants to read about a bunch of unhappy women?" one of their ex-husbands, a prominent Washington attorney, said when told that any book about Mary Pinchot Meyer would also involve the lives of her friends.
ii.
Life, University, etc.: The Story So Far
Having been rejected by Expensive Dream College in a a grimy crime-ridden city with stupendous levels of inequality, and finding no money in time to fund an education in the The Land of Opportunity, I have decided to keep things decidedly vanilla and stay in Singapore. I will count the hours spent staring blankly out of the window (sanitised), sighing and wondering what could have been and what will be. But this has been the story of my life time and time again—never quite getting what I want and blaming myself for it, but realising how everything turns out for the better.
iii.
Notes towards a deterioration iii:
Dinner: you ask: who is the girl
seated next to me:
uh: that's your granddaughter
No comments:
Post a Comment