Unraveling Grief and Love: The Haunting Journey Within "Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell"
The Library
Another life, another world since the books
Called me out into a headshaking daze:
Literature … extends our sense of life.
What do I believe in? I believe in that whose
meaning does not depend on my believing in it
— Change.
He voices the eeriness of reading her words “as if she were speaking to me — even through me — from beyond the grave.” He admires “the way she asserted her authorship with that emphatic, lower-case me, at pains to distinguish her own thoughts from the extensive quotations she copied out.” The journals “reminded me that she was indeed an English teacher, sniffing out plagiarism and unacknowledged sources wherever they might lurk.“
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