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Published : 9 months, 4 weeks ago (Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:47:30 PDT) Searched: kidlit http://kalichan.livejournal.com/151533.html 0 links Related posts
I've lots of things to post about - drinking absinthe, bombs, food porn, etc. etc., but this is not that post.
I've just discovered that Lucy Maud Montgomery killed herself in 1942. Anne & Emily, Valancy & Pat and Jane - they were some of the dearest friends of my childhood. And this year, I've been reading L.M. Montgomery's journals for my dissertation - and reading someone's diary is such an intimate feeling, even after they've been published, even after they're dead.
I remember discovering the short stories - ghosts, and divorces and illegitimate children and alcholics and depressions, always depression - and I was so fascinated.
This, though. This makes me feel... I don't know what. |