Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-12-12

"'Admiration', I have almost always found, as a term falling between identification and characterization, an embarassment to myself when I use it, or think of using it, of or to another - for there has got to be full-moon feeling, or the term is a misnomer, I have almost never encountered it in use except as carrying implicitly reservations, emotional usage."

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"As to public interest in my thought, my writings, earlier and later; there is a general literary despite - as, generally, The Telling is being ignored, to an indeterminable extent, as a matter of principle:..."