Becca Jane Approximately
When your mother sends back your invitations
And your father to your sister he explains
That you're tired of yourself and all your creations
Won't you come and see me, Queen Jane?
Feb 2, 2009
5:58am
John Updike Week: Day 2, Richard Yates
Thank God for moving pictures, without which I may never have learned of Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road in particular, and this perfect depiction of the suburbs (which remains perfect, even as the dull suburbs morph into the haunting exurbs):
“The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves … A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place.”
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