tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post5767043685759022715..comments2023-10-28T06:24:47.456-04:00Comments on Song of a Reformed Headhunter: Brathwaite's "The Zea Mexican Diary"Jee Leonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979179110231643931noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-42824601824606758722007-04-25T19:51:00.000-04:002007-04-25T19:51:00.000-04:00Greg,just call me Dr. Heart.Greg,<BR/>just call me Dr. Heart.Jee Leonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01979179110231643931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-26081355582723850452007-04-24T23:38:00.000-04:002007-04-24T23:38:00.000-04:00Yes Jee Leong, that makes sense to me & you put it...Yes Jee Leong, that makes sense to me & you put it so well. It's important to keep in mind how feelings we try to express nonetheless remain inexpressible, while at the same time our tries at apt expression can heal. As I think about it I realize that those 2 sentences of yours relate to so much of what I care about and want to do with my life - wow. The sense of recognition I have reading & considering your words is satisfying; thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-46672420417900596092007-04-23T19:44:00.000-04:002007-04-23T19:44:00.000-04:00Greg,the search for the exact expression for inexp...Greg,<BR/>the search for the exact expression for inexpressible feelings can be healing. Discovery is not so far away from recovery, impossible though the latter may seem at the point of experience.<BR/><BR/>monkey,<BR/>thanks for the interesting recommendation. You add to the usefulness of this blog.Jee Leonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01979179110231643931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-60950270607768109512007-04-22T16:15:00.000-04:002007-04-22T16:15:00.000-04:00Jee Leong, thanks for an interesting post.This is ...Jee Leong, thanks for an interesting post.<BR/><BR/>This is going off on a tangent, but Marjorie Williams, a Washington Post columnist who died of cancer, continued writing while she was sick, and after her death, her husband Timothy Noah (who writes for Slate) edited a collection of her writing, <I>The Woman at the Washington Zoo</I>. I haven't read the book, but I read one of her columns that touched on her experience as a cancer patient, and I think she was a wonderful writer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-91106808901015026722007-04-22T14:46:00.000-04:002007-04-22T14:46:00.000-04:00I appreciate your reading of the "iron bar" metaph...I appreciate your reading of the "iron bar" metaphor. To me your account of how it works in the passage makes sense & suggests hopeful possibilities of people distancing themselves inwardly from selfish grief--possibilities that unfortunately are often overlooked with the result that people marinate in dead-end grief & half-die.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-56494424723657961742007-04-22T14:28:00.000-04:002007-04-22T14:28:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com