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SDPC Introduction Valerie metaphor grief hospital death

After Jane’s death I became extremely busy. I had to cope with my grief, and one way I chose was to immediately begin keeping elaborate records in and writing essays for a series of “grief notebooks.” I told no one about the notebooks, or the three drawings I had made of Jane as she lay in her bed right after her death. I was obligated to spend many months finishing a Seth book — Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment — that we had started way back in September 1979, long before she went into the hospital; as I had planned to, I resumed work on that project the day after she died. (Jane was cremated the next day, in a process we had agreed upon several years ago.) I also worked upon two other books we collaborated upon after she had been hospitalized. There were many legal matters to attend to, much mail to answer, and more to keep up with.

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 11 Cunningham Miss starlings killing Rah

[...] Go, go, go.
Why not have a band play and give balloons away?
There’s nothing like killing birds
To clean up the business section.
We could feature a Starling Day, for our centennial celebration,
Such elation as the city fathers
And other pot-bellied elders
Did their best to keep the city clean.
We could give ice cream away to the kids who killed the most,
The hosts of observers could yell the cheer:
“Oh, it takes such courage and it takes such brawn
To drop the blackbirds on the County House lawn.”

[...] Once she ran out of the place in her nightgown, out into the busy street in the middle of evening traffic. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 7 camouflage Malba instruments Decatur senses

[...] My afternoon at the gallery had been very busy. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 10 Mark Rob furniture arrangements bookcases

[...] Nor was he a close friend, merely a good acquaintance who lived out of town and visited Elmira only when his business required it, about once every six weeks.

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 5 enzymes plane saucers Rob mental

[...] Rob said that I stood at the window, looking out at the busy intersection. [...]