Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.
–Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
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About the shallowness of sanity
…the shallowness of sanity.
—The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
How to read poetry
On the flyleaf of the anthology there was written the name Dunne, in small careful handwriting, and then, in the same handwriting, blue ink, fountain-pen blue ink, these guides to study: 1) What is the meaning of the poem and what is the experience? 2) What thought or reflection does the experience lead us to? 3) What mood, feeling, emotion is stirred or created by the poem as a whole?
—The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Bewildered Creatures 