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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Autumn's Apple Air


Fall coaxes us to read.
The weather was crisp and clean, so fresh. It was a good day.

I'm rereading The Group by Mary McCarthy. First read it at Douglass College in Intro to Feminist Literature; really liked my professor, a young, pretty newlywed who--like the author--had attended Vassar and had stories in her pocket about the daisy chain and other traditions. I remember liking the book so much that I brought it to the laundry room in the dorm basement. Didn't want to put it down.

It's so funny. I underlined the words I didn't understand, looked them up and wrote the definition in the margin. One was enigmatic; another, sublet. Have come a long way.

Good night.

TCOY
  1. 12 o'clock Mass. Priest said in homily, "Direction is more important than distance." That heading the right way is what matters, even if you have a long way to go. Like that.
  2. Walked Sug around block once and on long walk up hill over Iris Gardens.
  3. Made healthy dinner: flounder, roasted carrots, whole-wheat baguette. Nice to sit in nook with H. and Fig and eat.






5 comments:

  1. I just read that for the first time a year ago, Alice. So interesting!

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  2. More feminist literature: sometime in the early eighties I remember reading "The Women's Room" by Marilyn French. I think I liked it. "The Group" was made into a movie that has been on television occasionally.

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  3. Eileen...it's a good read, isn't it?....Lin, I think I read The Women's Room, too, not 100% sure...I would love to see The Group movie, don't think I ever have. love, alice

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  4. Ok, so here is possibly TMI:

    I never actually read the whole book, but there is a very well described sex scene in it that a little friend helpfully shared with me from a copy she had lifted from her mother's bedside table. This is the street corner on which I learned the facts of life, or at least how IT is done.

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  5. Nan, haha that is funny! I like that. I haven't gotten to it yet, but I remember there is some scene at dr's office for diaphragm fitting, perhaps? Yes, the book is very vividly written. I hope all is well with you and yours. alice

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