GETTING INTO KANSAS

“Get into novel deep

enough so it will

go on at the same time”

—Sylvia Plath

Unabridged Journal

July 25, 1956

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Getting out of that dull paralysis—

Realizing that it’s not fiction

Some days the novel's real—

Time slows down just for you

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Nourishing one's life with the—

The concrete imagination

Daily, simply reading—

The Touchable Imagination

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Call it eidetic imagery—

Beyond crummy TV & Movies

Catapulting you thru adolescence—

That's Midwest Magic Realism

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Getting to know how it works—

Reading words for a living