This song, from the album "Is this desire?" is an allusion to the J.D. Salinger story, which was published in New Yorker magazine 31 January 1948, "A Perfect Day for a Bananafish." The song and its contents are interwoven with inexplicable anxiety and its result such as that on the day of Seymour Glass, whose disposition frightens a girl in an elevator as he makes his way back to the room with his ambivalent wife, Muriel. He lies down on the twin bed next to hers, and fires a bullet through his right temple.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
A perfect day, Elise - PJ Harvey
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*on the final day
I am striving not to be detached, egoistic, and off-putting as I have been these days. I have to remember (and the path for its expression is opening) that being receptive, adaptable, and using a feminine approach to things is not diminishing; in fact, it was what you need from me.
I wonder if I am projecting when I call the pastoral care office about an anxious, hopeless patient. I feel like I have to exhaust all pathways with meds, family or underlying causes, and then I call them.
I will put Exercise 89 here.
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Thank you, for reminding me.
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