Poem: The 5th Angel
The One for Whom They Are Intended
The angel, however, resembles all from which I have had to part: persons and above all things. In the things I no longer have, he resides. He makes them transparent, and behind all of them there appears to me the one for whom they are intended...
Walter Benjamin, from a letter
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Women:
Virginia Woolf was 59.
Anne Sexton was 44.
Marilyn Monroe was 36.
Sylvia Plath was 31.
Cleopatra was 21.
Men:
Bruno Bettelheim was 87.
Onde está a felicidade? Camilo Castelo Branco was 65.
Ernest Hemingway was 61. (Older than his father,
sister, and granddaughter, Margeaux.)
Abbie Hoffman was 53.
Mishima Yukio was 45.
Jack London was 40.
Vincent van Gogh was 37.
John Kennedy Toolewas 32.
Thomas Chattertonwas 18.
Reasons:
Published by G.L. Morrison
With sundry awards, magazines & anthologies to her credit, Morrison's taught writers @conferences in Portland, Seattle, SF, Boston, Chicago, NYC and Washington DC at the Library of Congress. View profile
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