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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
Reading this reminded me I've been meaning to read more Didion. Her notebooks show finer writing and deeper thought than most polished work. I've always admired her intellect, but respect her even more now - after reading her observations of traveling through the south in 1970. Of course, she traveled wrapped in many layers of privilege (race, class, education), but she did travel there, not in conjunction with a writing assignment or any purpose except to try and understand the region.
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The South section was such gorgeous writing, evoked such a feeling of being there, that I was super disappointed in the West section, which, frankly, should have been left off of this.
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Moderate: Racism, Slavery
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"Part of it is simply what looks right to the eye, sounds right to the ear. I am at home in the West. The hills of the coastal ranges look "right" to me, the particular flat expanse of the Central Valley comforts my eye. The place names have the ring of real places to me. I can pronounce the names of the rivers, and recognize the common trees and snakes. I am easy here in a way I am not easy in other places"
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On the South (notes from 1970): "The time warp: the Civil War was yesterday, but 1960 is spoken of as if it were about three hundred years ago."