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Rachel Lyon
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Northward Through Mirkwood
Hello from wintry New England, where we returned Sunday evening after a joyful weekend in NYC. Because my rather obsessive five-year-old has gotten into audiobooks, we listened to The Hobbit practically the whole ride home. How dramatic it was to hear about little Mr. Baggins and the dwarves traveling Northward through Mirkwood to brave the lair of Smaug as we too drove northward, from the colorfu
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Fruit of the Dead
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Self-Portrait with Boy
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You'll Know When It's Time
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“I grew up poor among poor people in a poor town, but I never knew how poor I'd been until I moved to New York. These women with their fresh produce and diamonds and manicures. Even their skin was expensive. What got to me about them wasn't just the way they made me suddenly self-conscious about the ink under my fingernails or the haircut I gave myself in my own bathroom. It wasn't just that they'd spend more in one evening on chocolate, escarole, and jam than I did on the rice and beans and film and photo paper I needed for a week. What enraged me is that they didn't, couldn't, see me. I was less than a machine to them, less than a body. I did not even appear in their line of sight. I was nothing more than a couple of chanted phrases: Cash or charge? Paper or plastic? Thank you, have a nice night.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
― Self-Portrait with Boy
“The very act of recall is like trying to photograph the sky. The infinite and ever-shifting colors of memory, its rippling light, cannot really be captured. Show someone who has never seen the sky a picture of the sky and you show them a picture of nothing.
Still I have to try.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
Still I have to try.”
― Self-Portrait with Boy
“She seemed to have stepped back into herself. It had taken a moment, following the argument with Steve, but now she was present, natural. She’d refilled her self with herself.”
― Self Portrait With Boy
― Self Portrait With Boy
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Princeton Women in Brooklyn, discussing some books.
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Jun 30, 2007 11:56AM
thanks for introducing me to this, rachel; it's very timely, as I'm trying to put together a reading list for my project this year. can you suggest stuff very american, preferably contemporary, and good?
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