A country girl

A lifetime exile

"A lot of memoirs end in catharsis. They´re hunky-dory with their mother and father, their sister and mother, and I feel that´s imposed. You´re alone with yourself, and your writing, and the feeling of one´s mind fraying, from a lot of things--the weight of time, the wailing of the foxes."  


   ... Edna O'Brien (1930b), an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer

Male anxiety of the home

Cartoonist*

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man"

   ... James Thurber ( 1894-1961), American cartoonist, playright, and celebrated wit.


* an animated example [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1teJjX-smdE&feature=related]

The Lost Generation

"Let¨s not think about it"

"I think the future of mankind is short & getting shorter— we proliferate, we grow in bulk and stature like some prehistoric species of animals on the brink of wiping themselves out  by destroying their environment".

 

 

             ... Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989), American novelist, poet, literary critic, journalist