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Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar (Unabridged)

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  • Meagan Robertshat Zitat gemachtvor 9 Tagen
    And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all.
  • Meagan Robertshat Zitat gemachtvor 9 Tagen
    To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.

    A bad dream.

    I remembered everything.
  • Meagan Robertshat Zitat gemachtvor 9 Tagen
    Lately I had considered going into the Catholic Church myself. I knew that Catholics thought killing yourself was an awful sin. But perhaps, if this was so, they might have a good way to persuade me out of it.
  • Meagan Robertshat Zitat gemachtvor 9 Tagen
    Then I saw that my body had all sorts of little tricks, such as making my hands go limp at the crucial second, which would save it, time and again, whereas if I had the whole say, I would be dead in a flash.
  • Meagan Robertshat Zitat gemachtvor 9 Tagen
    That morning I had tried to hang myself.
  • Meagan Robertshat Zitat gemachtvor 9 Tagen
    Then, when nobody was looking, I buried it in the sand.
  • Meagan Robertshat Zitat gemachtvor 9 Tagen
    My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.
  • Meagan Robertshat Zitat gemachtvor 9 Tagen
    You'll never get anywhere like that.
  • Meagan Robertshat Zitat gemachtvor 9 Tagen
    When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tub and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank to sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies.

    But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenceless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.
  • Meagan Robertshat Zitat gemachtvor 9 Tagen
    And then, I thought, he would help me, step by step, to be myself again.
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