The World Below
“I took the pieces I knew of their story and made from them a great and uncomplicated romance, a thing of deep and enduring fidelity and devotion, which I heard in my head in my grandmother’s rhythmic, storytelling voice. Why wouldn’t I have been eager to believe in it this way, growing up as I did? And as my life went on, and filled up with what seemed to me its own sordid adult complications, I didn’t revise that view. Instead, I idealized them even more. I wanted to. I wanted there to be a wo...rld where things were simpler and cleaner and finer than the world I seemed to have landed in as I started making my own way in life.Occasionally I still hear about my first husband, Peter, or read about him. He was famous for a while as a political activist; even now he’s still unearthed from time to time—dug up, as it were, from where he’s buried himself in his present life—to comment on those times, the times in which he had his fleeting fame. Once I was watching a television documentary on those days and there he was, both young and old.MoreLess
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