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Is art meaningless in these violent circumstances?
can get sort of stale.
This time, it feels a little like, … okay, I think we get it.
Howd you all feel?
But lets begin with some good news: Its a bright morning at the Dickinson household.
I know Em doesnt want to hear it, but thats a very good idea.
She loves talking about death!
In the meantime, Im happy to see her insist upon more ruffles and cleavage in her mourning dress.
Very here for those fishnet fingerless gloves.
Howd this land with all of you?
Vinnie is hosting a sewing circle that will now be focused on making bandages for soldiers.
(This whole thing reminds me of Molly the American Girl.
She knit quilts or something for the war effort, right?)
Em keeps insisting upon her need to sit in peace and write.
Vinnie scolds her: Peace is NOT an option.
If she doesnt set that boundary, she will never write anything!
Did any of you guess who she was?
I admit I did not, but itsZiwe(!)
as Sojourner Truth (!!)
in a solid end-of-episode reveal.
I love that she is 60, but also, we dont know your exact birthdate.
See:Louisa May Alcott,Frederick Law Olmsted).
She just needs to respect my boundaries.
Tale as old as time, baby.
Em is sent by her mother as an envoy to plead her case.
Em does not want to go.
Em wants to write!
Cant the people give her some space?
But no; she goes across the street.
She is the only person Sue wants to see.
She calls herself Uncle Emily, lol.
SUE, EM DOES NOT WANT TO RAISE A CHILD AT ALL.
LET THE POET WRITE POETRY.
She also wants Em to stay for dinner since Austin is away anyway.
Sue is furious that Em always chooses her family over her.
Em spent all of last season being obsessed with Sue!
Writing her 10,000 poems that Sue could barely handle!!
(I lost it at Joseph Lyman died fighting for theConfederacy.
But were not ready to havethatconversation.)
Em explains that she wants to tend to the wounds in peoples HEARTS and SOULS with her POETRY.
But one partygoer talks aboutDrum Beat, which her husband runs under the warm gaze of Lincoln himself!
He went to Amherst and was friendly with Austin.)
Em decides the best thing she can do for the world is lock herself away and write poetry.
Betty, youre a seamstress, you should understand!
I feel like no one here appreciates the creative process.
In his drunken delirium, Austin wails, Where is JANE?
which, uh, Vietnam buddy, as you know.
Em thinks this is the right time to tell Austin that their father forgives him.
Did Em not listen to anything Austin said?
Also, read the room!
Now is not the moment!
Speaking of babies: Em can hear Sues crying from across the road, which, yikes.
Shes in her room (FINALLY) when George knocks on the door.
He has a gift: a copy of theAtlantic!
George points to one article in particular: advice for young poets by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
I write in my notes,George, kindly dont be creepy.
Shes not into you,but he goes in for the kiss anyway.
(I just thought maybe with the war going on and everything.)
