tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237865451372431264.post3257314111841532342..comments2023-06-05T08:30:06.639-04:00Comments on Dear Audrey: Black Cat, Purple Lights, SeparationJo Juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16981020170602413504noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237865451372431264.post-46616202750506079072010-10-25T22:03:57.000-04:002010-10-25T22:03:57.000-04:00There is a Hemmingway passage from Islands in the ...There is a Hemmingway passage from Islands in the Stream that has always stuck with me. Thomas Hudson, the protagonist, has just received the news that his two boys have been killed in a car accident. He is on a boat going somewhere.<br /> <br />"He thought that on the ship he could come to some terms with his sorrow, not knowing yet, that there are no terms to be made with sorrow. It can be cured by death and it can be blunted or anesthetized by various things. Time is supposed to cure it, too. But if it is cured by anything less than death, the chances are it was not true sorrow."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com