Miss MacIntosh, My Darling discussion

chap 7 page 142

dreaming the dead Doc, dreaming Duty

more too of Homer and Madge (so close to Homer and Mardge!) - gossiping of murder and marriage and madness

the rain keeps coming heavy and the bus pushes on through the dark.

I've become quite convinced that had Sylvia Plath avoided being dragged down by toxic men, and had she avoided writing commercialistic fiction that is hardly readable, then I think her obsessions could have manifested in a novel quite like Miss Mac. The parallel passions between Plath and Young are almost uncanny. I'm not sure on the timeline here but I wonder if they ever crossed paths or at least one had to have encountered the other's work at some time or another. And thankfully at least one of these women was able to express themselves so expansively and without censor.

lol, I couldn't find anything about Sylvia Plath and Marguerite Young meeting but I just read something about Marguerite meeting Rothke in a hotel in Indianapolis. He told her to meet her in the lobby at 4:00 so that he could marry her!! It was her first time meeting him, and he was probably in one of his manic phases!!!

to meet him*

I'm an idiot. Read manic and thought Rothko. It's Roethke, the poet! yikes.

ReemK10 (Paper Pills) wrote: "I'm an idiot. Read manic and thought Rothko. It's Roethke, the poet! yikes."

I first saw "Rothko" too. I'm not familiar with Roethke. Gotta love the manics either way.

I thought what a great story. With Marguerite it had to be a great story. So in my mind it was Rothko!! Maybe it still was a great story with this Roethke. I had never heard of Theodore Roethke!