Injure me, betray me, but only make me sure of the love, for all day and night, away from him and with him, everywhere and always, that is my gravity, and the apples (which ben ripe in my gardayne) fall only towards that.

Although they had yet to meet, although he was still only words on a page, she declared him the love of her life. The title was adapted by Ashley Hutchings for his album By Gloucester Docks I Sat Down and Wept, which includes the track "Love, Stuff and Nonsense", credited as Smart's work. narfna on “What the stories never said: at the end of the day, if a man wants to kill you, he kills you. And I realised – I suspect I have before and then forgotten – that it must be my very particular preference about voices that meant I never liked Smiths/Moz quite as much as many friends do, and why I like Pulp better. Cada una de las diez partes en que se divide En Grand Central Station me senté y lloré es como una imagen aislada; diez instantáneas tomadas en distintos momentos de la relación de Elizabeth Smart con el poeta George Barker.Leerla es sentir que alguien te ha hecho el maravilloso y precioso regalo de compartir contigo una parte tan íntima que crees no merecer. Y pese a tanto sufrimiento, Smart expone claramente su preferencia por esta destructora cara del amor si la alternativa es la mera indiferencia. It is a slow-motion process of the guillotine in action, and I see plainly that no miracle can avert the imminent deaths. When what should have been done, by our own estimation, could not or should not or would not be done, and the world as we thought we knew it has crumbled before our eyes.

All I know is that I found myself taking this book home and loving it all evening, and all through the next day, and when I reached the end, I started loving it all over again from the beginning, this time reveling in the difference between it and Spark's books. Accompanied in this edition by The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals , a short novel that may be read as its sequel, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept has been hailed by critics worldwide as a work of sheer genius. Not surprisingly, this book, which was first published in 1945, ends up in a lament--with mythical and biblical interpretations. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is a 1945 novel in prose poetry by the Canadian author Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986).

Hizo todo lo posible por encontrarse con él, a pesar de que sabía que estaba casado, y finalmente se las ingenió para conseguir, a principios de los años cuarenta, que Barker visitara junto con su esposa la colonia de escritores en la que Elizabeth vivía en California. Philosophy, like lichens, takes centuries to grow and is always ignored in the Book of Instructions. By the end of the second novella there is something captivating about the way she goes about telling the second half of her story.