Feb. 6th, 2012

Sylvia

Feb. 6th, 2012 12:21 pm
monk222: (Noir Detective)
Sylvia has another date, sort of. This one is more tumultuous.
_ _ _

Now I'll never see him again, and maybe it's a good thing. He walked out of my life last night for once and for all. I know with sickening certainty that it's the end. There were just those two dates we had, and the time he came over with the boys, and tonight. Yet I liked him too much - way too much, and I ripped him out of my heart so it wouldn't get to hurt me more than it did. Oh, he's magnetic, he's charming; you could fall into his eyes. Let's face it: his sex appeal was unbearably strong. I wanted to know him - the thoughts, the ideas behind the handsome, confident, wise-cracking mask.

"I've changed," he told me. "You would have liked me three years ago. Now I'm a wiseguy." We sat together for a few hours on the porch, talking, and staring at nothing. Then the friction increased, centered. His nearness was electric in itself. "Can't you see," he said. "I want to kiss you." So he kissed me, hungrily, his eyes shut, his hand warm, curved burning into my stomach.

"I wish I hated you," I said. "Why did you come?"

"Why? I wanted your company. Alby and Pete were going to the ball game, and I couldn't see that. Warrie and Jerry were going drinking; couldn't see that either." It was past eleven; I walked to the door with him and stepped outside into the cool August night. "Come here," he said. "I'll whisper something: I like you, but not too much. I don't want to like anybody too much."

Then it hit me and I just blurted, "I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."

He was definite, "Nobody knows me."

So that was it; the end. "Goodbye for good, then," I said.

He looked hard at me, a smile twisting his mouth, "You lucky kid; you don't know how lucky you are."

I was crying quietly, my face contorted. "Stop it!"

The words came like knife thrusts, and then gentleness, "In case I don't see you, have a nice time at Smith."

"Have a hell of a nice life," I said. And he walked off down the path with his jaunty, independent stride. And I stood there where he left me, tremulous with love and longing, weeping in the dark. That night it was hard to get to sleep.

-- Sylvia Plath Journals, 1950

_ _ _

I wonder why he told her that she was lucky. Is it because she overcame the risk of being another notch on his belt? now that he has become such a wiseguy and so cynical.

Sylvia

Feb. 6th, 2012 12:21 pm
monk222: (Noir Detective)
Sylvia has another date, sort of. This one is more tumultuous.
_ _ _

Now I'll never see him again, and maybe it's a good thing. He walked out of my life last night for once and for all. I know with sickening certainty that it's the end. There were just those two dates we had, and the time he came over with the boys, and tonight. Yet I liked him too much - way too much, and I ripped him out of my heart so it wouldn't get to hurt me more than it did. Oh, he's magnetic, he's charming; you could fall into his eyes. Let's face it: his sex appeal was unbearably strong. I wanted to know him - the thoughts, the ideas behind the handsome, confident, wise-cracking mask.

"I've changed," he told me. "You would have liked me three years ago. Now I'm a wiseguy." We sat together for a few hours on the porch, talking, and staring at nothing. Then the friction increased, centered. His nearness was electric in itself. "Can't you see," he said. "I want to kiss you." So he kissed me, hungrily, his eyes shut, his hand warm, curved burning into my stomach.

"I wish I hated you," I said. "Why did you come?"

"Why? I wanted your company. Alby and Pete were going to the ball game, and I couldn't see that. Warrie and Jerry were going drinking; couldn't see that either." It was past eleven; I walked to the door with him and stepped outside into the cool August night. "Come here," he said. "I'll whisper something: I like you, but not too much. I don't want to like anybody too much."

Then it hit me and I just blurted, "I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."

He was definite, "Nobody knows me."

So that was it; the end. "Goodbye for good, then," I said.

He looked hard at me, a smile twisting his mouth, "You lucky kid; you don't know how lucky you are."

I was crying quietly, my face contorted. "Stop it!"

The words came like knife thrusts, and then gentleness, "In case I don't see you, have a nice time at Smith."

"Have a hell of a nice life," I said. And he walked off down the path with his jaunty, independent stride. And I stood there where he left me, tremulous with love and longing, weeping in the dark. That night it was hard to get to sleep.

-- Sylvia Plath Journals, 1950

_ _ _

I wonder why he told her that she was lucky. Is it because she overcame the risk of being another notch on his belt? now that he has become such a wiseguy and so cynical.

Story Books

Feb. 6th, 2012 09:59 pm
monk222: (Little Bear)
“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them—with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”

-- Eudora Welty

I don't think I would have lasted this long without books. Of course, even the best book is no substitue for life and love, but good books can enable you to transcend the loneliness and disappointment, help you to enjoy a dream of life at least.

Story Books

Feb. 6th, 2012 09:59 pm
monk222: (Little Bear)
“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them—with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”

-- Eudora Welty

I don't think I would have lasted this long without books. Of course, even the best book is no substitue for life and love, but good books can enable you to transcend the loneliness and disappointment, help you to enjoy a dream of life at least.

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