It's absolutely been wild seeing how it's gone, yeah. Personally: I think it's shaping up for the better - publishers, imo, didn't adapt well enough to the digital landscape and worked too hard to preserve their sort of gilded tower and closed gates policies which is why self publishing has taken off so well, while before it was basically only a bastion for the desperate and determined. Now anyone with like, a hundred bucks and a word processor can throw their stuff out into the void.

I approach the cab driver with the same attitude as I approach the police chase scene, that it’s just an event that Patrick has worked into his fantasy, it either didn’t happen or something much milder happened and Patrick amplified it to apply to his thoughts.

Tommyknockers is actually the first book he wrote after getting sober. It’s his least favorite book. He says it felt like he completely forgot how to write and his wife had to push him on sentence by sentence

Kind of. I think Pennywise pops up out of the drain and starts taunting the kid. The TV Mini had some good parts and some "lol. Seriously?" parts too.

I have been feeling the same way and figured I was just done with thrillers but then my husband bought me If We We're Villains and I have been devouring it. Can't tell you if the ending is good or not, but I'm about 80% in and it's been great!

It's to make sure no one cares enough to dig into their personal correspondence after they've kicked the bucket.

Under the little known pen name Leever Hangin

Because he's a psychopath who is giving odd vibes.

It's a fantasy a description of a fantasy world or a series of dreams.

the 50 year request you mean? I'm guessing it was to protect the feelings of anyone who knew them. Anais Nin did something similar with her unedited memoirs.

I was going to ask if they were the disturbing, fucking out farts type of letters...then I remembered T.S. Elliot was not James Joyce.

Well I mean, if you're gonna be sharing your perspective with others, it should at least have some merit.

A lot of people want to force their favorite art to agree with their ethics or politics, but they're just wrong

Or read the same page over again after you fell asleep while reading that page - most likely multiple times.

That context doesn't make invading privacy a justifiable thing.

I cried my eyes out when I read it in high school and still get teary if I think about it long enough.

Frisch weht der Wind

Der Heimat zu,

Mein Irisch Kind

Wo weilest du?

I use Smart Audiobook player. You can use your computer to download your audible books and play them through Smart. This puts all your books in one place. It has the best sleep timer with a shake to continue playing setting, so when it's about to sleep it makes a noise and you just shake your phone to continue. I only fall asleep to audiobooks and sometimes one sleep timer round isn't enough so I just shake it half-asleep...

I read his statement, and my take was a bit different from yours but more in line with your second option. When he mentions early in the statement that he could never write an autobiography and explains why - that along with his love for Valerie and his request that his letters to Emily Hale be destroyed, makes me believe that he did love Emily Hale.

I think perhaps at some point he realized that Emily Hale would be detrimental to his being a poet. I can understand this. I’m with a very grounded science fellow who has no interest in poetry. The difference is he cares about me so much that he cares about what inspires me. If Emily did not respect the soul of a poet within Eliot, I can see where marriage to her would mean the death of the poet within him.

Meanwhile, if he didn’t marry Emily, her very presence in a off-limits way would allow him to love her from a distance and allow that love to serve as a muse. Also, he clearly loved Valerie and did not want her to feel that his love for her was diminished or less.

I question if he would have requested his letters to Emily be destroyed if he had felt completely confident in the letters not being made public for fifty years after his death. I wonder if perhaps Emily went against his wishes in sending the letters to Princeton while they both yet lived and that was the final thing that made him decide she did not value him as he had her. His statement, I think, wouldn’t mention Emily valuing her uncle’s opinion more and perhaps caring more about his reputation than for him IF he wasn’t nursing some wounded feelings over the letters being given to Princeton early.

This is of course just my own thinking about the circumstances. I might be completely in error.

I think it might have been a pair of ragged claws...

Absolutely! I truly do think your purpose is justified and your intent good. That you worried about it in the first place is a sign of that and that you would worry so strongly on the thoughts of others is another. None of us are perfect and some of us would if we could... But we can't and, in some cases, shouldn't have to.

Can confirm as well. This does happen.

Oh gosh, I hope no one here thinks I'm their ticket to making it big. It was really more a am I reading these books now or in possibly a few years time question.(broke)

I do definitely agree that laws and ethics are seperate and should always be thus. there are to many possibilities in this world to account for in law. To many laws created by the well off.

Thank you for supporting that idea so strongly throughout this thread.

I understand this completely.

Well here’s the cliff notes for everyone else

Scary clown

Sudden orgy

Space turtle

Scary spider

Le end

Let's not get carried away now