Who, being loved, is poor?
-Oscar Wilde
I read a beautiful short story by Annie Proulx in the June 9 edition of the New Yorker yesterday called "Tits-up in a Ditch". It tells the story of a young mother from a small town in Wyoming who enlists in the Army and goes to Iraq. As are many of Proulx's tales, it is heart-wrenchingly sad, realistic, and subtle. The main character is tragically unloved, and therefore dreadfully poor by Wilde's estimation. I highly recommend revisiting anything by Oscar Wilde and this new piece by one of my favorite authors.
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Thanks for this recommendation, Simone. As always, your posts are full of heart and a broad human perspective.
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