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Oof, I'm getting flashbacks to a poetry course I took in college where we studied (among other things) a whole collection of Robert Bly poems. I was *not* a fan, but I'm a fan of this dialogue!

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I’m stuck on “Bluebeard’s Menarche” and “Women, Christ’s Waterfalls.” And of course, Thalatta!

I had a friend who was in Jungian analysis and also a recovering alcoholic. She kept getting this impulse to take a bath in a tub full of wine - because, wine dark sea. Her analyst said she should go for it. Most everyone else thought it was the craziest relapse idea ever.

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