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Just put two and two together that Juliette’s husband, Julian, was the Julian Huxley that was very much so a proponent of eugenics and coined the term transhumanism. I loathe nearly every aspect of transhumanism (some of its biggest [current] proponents are tech billionaires, which says a lot about it). So booo Julian Huxley. I will definitely look at the book differently now.
Sidebar aside, I have finally (1/2)
— Jun 23, 2026 06:32PM
Sidebar aside, I have finally (1/2)
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is on page 212 of 400
Ok so I lied, I actually am not nearing the portion of time during which Juliette refuses communication with Sarton. While I still enjoy her writing and the way she attempts to verbalize how she feels (although she, like I, often highlights how inadequate words are), it gets a bit repetitive. I think it doesn’t help that we don’t get to see Juliette’s responses. Perhaps that was intentional, adding to the (1/).
— Jun 19, 2026 04:21PM
sylly
is on page 153 of 400
I am roughly half way through the book and am enjoying it a great deal. I love reading how others materialize their love into words (despite my complicated relationship with the very thought of it), so I knew from the beginning I would most likely enjoy this collection of letters.
I think a large portion of my enjoyment for the book thusfar stems from the way I see parts of myself in Sarton. (1/ who knows)
— Jun 17, 2026 08:28AM
I think a large portion of my enjoyment for the book thusfar stems from the way I see parts of myself in Sarton. (1/ who knows)
sylly
is on page 52 of 400
“Everything seems wrong now that was so right. But one must pretend that there is some reason and some curious pattern in such things”
— Jun 15, 2026 03:53PM
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this portion of the book has also reminded me of the pointlessness of anger and resentment
I don’t have much else more to say. Sarton is a fantastic writer despite her belief that words are never truly enough. I will put a few passages that stuck with me here.
“The fact that it was clear last time that you must be allowed to be extremely cruel but I was not to be allowed to suffer if and when you were. My suffering seemed to become the great sin” (p. 251)
“I am more and more aware that suttering really is a sin. But it is like being in Hell. One can't even imagine the way out. One just creeps along from day to day. There is a common myth that time heals. I have never found it so, not in the real things. One buries it finally, but it is buried alive” (p. 254)
“The essential Christian wisdom is after all a beautiful wisdom and in the end it all comes back to what one can dig out of oneself, call it God or the soul or whatever it may be, the dying to self, the renunciation and the being reborn” (p. 259)