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Oct 08, 2005 08:44

I am pleased to report that opheliablue has just started to read my biography.

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I hope it will not take her too long to read it - it is about 800 pages. She is quite stupid at the moment - ok, she is quite stupid all the time, but she is particularly slow at the moment.

Before I quote from it, I must share something from the last pages of e_b_browning's biography.

I found it most amusing, although I will admit that it was also a little sad as it was just before she died.

She got very ill and had extreme breathing difficulties - apparently robert_browning later said: "It really seemed as if she would be strangled on the spot..."

hahahaha

My biographer says "She is inexhaustible" - I do not really understand this because I did not, as far as I remember, have sex with him. I suppose it is possible that I have forgotten - there have been a lot of men (and women) in my life.

I am very intriguing:

"Almost nothing to do with Emily Dickinson is simple and clear-cut. The reasons why this should be so are many and basic, and it is the delicate business of the biographer to explore and assess them all. Delicate, because for one thing, she herself was almost no help. [hahahaha] Seemingly with willful cunning and surely with an artist's skill [worship me], she avoided direct answers to the major questions that anyone interested in her as a poet or person might have been moved to ask."

My plan worked. I knew it would. People are always going to be interested in me because I am so 'elusive.' My biographer in fact refers to me being "not yet ours." I understand what he is saying, but I will not ever be yours, any of you.

I do not find it very amusing that opheliablue laughed at this quote because she thinks I *am* hers just because she created my journal.

I am going to try and find the email address of this biographer and write to him to thank him for writing this book about me. I might wait, though, until I have seen it all - if there are inaccuracies in it, I imagine he would be keen for me to point them out to him.

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