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These are not undiscovered manuscripts--everything in the restored version of Ariel has appeared elsewhere--but any excuse to reread Plath is a good one. We think of anger as an ugly emotion, but in poems like "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy," Plath refines it to a state so pure that it becomes almost unbearably beautiful. Her poems unfold in a burnt winter landscape, lit by cold, melancholy sunlight and littered with strangled, frozen hopes, where her only chance is to draw strength from pain. "Beware," she cautions in "Lady Lazarus," "Out of the ash/ I rise with my red hair...
...more to the point here is the fact that because this kind of meaning is not what we usually associate with or ask from art, very few people (myself included) have yet developed the critical tools to talk about in an interesting or in-depth way. Go ahead and reread my paragraph elucidating the meaning of these objects—I’m sure you’ll notice (if you didn’t already on your first pass) that my descriptions are a both slick and insubstantial. I freely admit to my own shortcomings, but I also...
...summer because both are finite. Resolutions are forever--you're not supposed to gain weight, start smoking or live off your Visa card ever again. Summer goals last only as long as it takes to meet them and then set the next one--run a 6-min. mile, reread all of Jane Austen by Labor Day, master a celestial angel-food cake...
...Greedy's, Ko Myo lent me his copy of 1984, one of a collection of banned or sensitive books that he disguises in brown paper and risks another lengthy prison term for circulating. I reread it one afternoon in my hotel room with the curtains drawn, emerging hours later to discover that two military-intelligence agents were harassing the staff about my identity and movements. Their timing was unnerving. Orwell's "Hate Week" parades have a modern Burmese equivalent. Mass rallies had been staged at stadiums nationwide to support a "road map" to democracy launched by Khin Nyunt...
...lunch with Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Eugene Levy, four creators of our favorite 60s-style folk-song improv documentary comedy ?A Mighty Wind.? I can say the interview, which TIME.com published in its extended form, is laugh-out-loud funny because I just reread it and laughed out loud quite often. Treat yourself and read it. No, let us treat you. The interview is on our website...