http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2006/11/16/mona-van-duyn-letter-father/ "bringing you all the news that's fit to mistrust" Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:13:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2006/11/16/mona-van-duyn-letter-father/#comment-89 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:19:13 +0000 http://theunreliablenarrator.net/2006/11/16/mona-van-duyn-letter-father/#comment-89 What a wonderful thing that piece is. Such a gutpunch combo of horror, comedy, movement toward detail, awakenuing of attentions to something other than suffering. You've read it to me but not all the way through, I think. Call me sentimental (go ahead!) but my Irish moist eyes get the idea and I'm reminded of cacti, music I long ago left behind rediscovered, most of all the way we've made some things possible in attention to each other that we had perhaps "decided" (as if it were up to us) were closed chapters. What a wonderful thing that piece is. Such a gutpunch combo of horror, comedy, movement toward detail, awakenuing of attentions to something other than suffering. You’ve read it to me but not all the way through, I think. Call me sentimental (go ahead!) but my Irish moist eyes get the idea and I’m reminded of cacti, music I long ago left behind rediscovered, most of all the way we’ve made some things possible in attention to each other that we had perhaps “decided” (as if it were up to us) were closed chapters.

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