Posted by Racer on October 21, 2000, at 15:15:39
In reply to The Lady Who Laughed at Everything, posted by pullmarine on October 14, 2000, at 23:38:33
I'm late in reading this, but it reminds me of something...
Have you ever read anything by Joanne Greenberg? Yes, the so called "Rose Garden" patient.
She wrote a very striking short story called something like Certain Distant Suns. (Just typing that sends chills down my body, it's very powerful.)
This story concerns an eccentric Jewish woman who gradually decides to stop believing in some of the rules which have governed her life. Little by little she is removed from the reality which others face.
The story itself is about a loss of religious faith, and a loss of sanity, but it's powerful and very, very interesting. Greenberg was a tremendous writer, and managed to grasp that allegorical fable feeling that you can find in writers like Garcia Marquez. I highly recommend that short story, though I can't tell you where you can find it. I came upon it years and years ago, and I think it may have been sent to me by an academic I was collaborating with at the time. I remember he sent me a stack of photocopied stories he used for a class, and I think this one was included.
Regardless of where I got a hold of it, if you can find it, read it. You may find that it snaps any last link you have to reality, but I think the Aunt's world was a much nicer place overall, anyway. I'll see you there!
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