tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post5975062328639748218..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Books and boys--Marly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-45115147282327432012013-12-23T18:54:01.079-05:002013-12-23T18:54:01.079-05:00The dachsund!The dachsund!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-64089981771728458072013-12-23T18:47:53.874-05:002013-12-23T18:47:53.874-05:00Merry Christmas-to-be, Lucy!
Thanks for those tho...Merry Christmas-to-be, Lucy!<br /><br />Thanks for those thoughts. I'll keep them in mind. But I didn't get to read a word more today, between shooting down the block, the just-fetched daughter throwing up repeatedly, the tree, and wrapping presents. Whew.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-78329039112607837402013-12-23T18:33:05.726-05:002013-12-23T18:33:05.726-05:00I enjoyed 'On Beauty' but then when I read...I enjoyed 'On Beauty' but then when I read 'Howard's End', which in my ignorance I didn't do until after reading the former, I realised what a self-conscious, possibly rather mannered, mirroring of it the later book was. So the opening letter is made from a kind of pro-forma from Helen's opening letter to Margaret (educated, arty and rather overwrought early 20th c. Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-42770748017211050402013-12-22T23:04:47.365-05:002013-12-22T23:04:47.365-05:00Indeed, it does! Luckily I am not afraid of making...Indeed, it does! Luckily I am not afraid of making sweeping generalizations (ack!) that might get me into trouble... Maybe I just know too many young men who have some common traits, and maybe they're just an utterly peculiar sample!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-60010246147453881612013-12-22T17:02:44.984-05:002013-12-22T17:02:44.984-05:00"First, young men tend to be uninformative co..."First, young men tend to be uninformative compared to young women."<br /><br />Well, you as a mother would know best about such things. However, I doubt the generalization. Were it phrased in the reverse, for example, with young women somehow being less than young men in some way, you could anticipate being accused of some sort of misogyny. While I do not think your generalization R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-85218267208397457262013-12-21T14:28:40.440-05:002013-12-21T14:28:40.440-05:00And that is a sweet account!And that is a sweet account!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-73990625705698882042013-12-21T14:28:18.865-05:002013-12-21T14:28:18.865-05:00Ah, well, romantic love is an entirely different m...Ah, well, romantic love is an entirely different matter!<br /><br />Yes, I well believe in translatlantic and far-off letters between sweethearts and also between friends. I've certainly done both of those things...<br /><br />But a very young man writing to his father on a very frequent basis? I'd be so surprised to see long son-to-father letters from a very young guy. (Of course it Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-56914291251892292702013-12-21T12:46:45.339-05:002013-12-21T12:46:45.339-05:00Ach, MUST reread and fix typos BEFORE sending. Sor...Ach, MUST reread and fix typos BEFORE sending. Sorry.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-18614261729372799132013-12-21T12:45:27.861-05:002013-12-21T12:45:27.861-05:00Not having a son, I can't be sure about such r...Not having a son, I can't be sure about such romantic writing of letters, especially in this day of texting, tweets and so on. However, I must say that our middle daughter me her future husband through through a mutual friend via the internet and carried on email conversations in poetry back and forth over the Atlantic. Of course those were not letters home to mother, and also before textingmarja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.com