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“And does not my desire to write come from a tendency toward introversion begun when I was small, brought up as I was in the fairy-tale world of Mary Poppins and Winnie-the-Pooh? Did not that set me apart from most of my schoolmates? the fact that I got all A’s and was “different” from the rough-and-tumble Conways - how I am not quite sure, but “different” as the animal with the touch of human hands about him when he returns to the herd. All this may be a subtle way of egoistically separating myself from the common herd, but take it for what it’s worth.”
-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals 1950-1953
Part three of "Rotting Apple Cores". The college freshman is still working out who she is - the awkwardness and the sense of specialness, the agony and the promise.
-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals 1950-1953
Part three of "Rotting Apple Cores". The college freshman is still working out who she is - the awkwardness and the sense of specialness, the agony and the promise.
