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How do others feel about her decision to sell the letters? Personally I'm a bit perturbed by it, but in the same position, I'd have a hard time turning down $75
by joenot443 7y ago
How do others feel about her decision to sell the letters? Personally I'm a bit perturbed by it, but in the same position, I'd have a hard time turning down $75,000.
- mlthoughts2018 7y agoI feel like it’s not my place to comment, kind of like someone else’s choice to be vegan or drive a luxury car or something. It’s a personal consumption choice & they have their reasons.
- hluska 7y agoIf I look at it reasonably, I share being slightly perturbed though like you, I don’t know that I would turn down $75k. If I look at it with my romantic, fictional eye it almost seems like a DFW plot device. You’ve got a talented letter writer who adopted an unending stream of identities in college, found herself in a difficult marriage and began writing an author in the midst of his struggles with powerful demons. They never met and the author terminated their relationship about a year before killing himself. Years later, her house burns, her husband finds the letters intact and they sell them. Heck, if she bought a sailboat with the money and toured the Mediterranean, it would be a hell of a pitch...
- zaat 7y agoDeep sadness. I don't feel like I have the right to judge or the means to understand her position, but it is sad for me whenever the personal and the sacred is converted to asset. My feelings toward Wallace probably makes the whole deal worse.
- jcranberry 7y agoThe article seemed to portray the letters of being a symbol of a previous pattern of troubling escapism for her, and selling them was a personal affirmation of graduating from that pattern. Such items may be sentimental, but if the sentiments that they hold for you aren't a positive force, then it's better not to keep them around.