Peter Fydler

A Fool in a Cagoule

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50 years ago today (30th May 1975, also a Friday) Ted Hughes premiered the truly extraordinary Cave Birds at the Ilkley Literature Festival. He also read a selection of poems from what would become the Epilogue of Gaudete (1977). What an amazing gig!!!

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@WinterPollan Sorry, I kind of assumed everyone would know Sylvia Plath said “Dying in an art”; the point of the tweet was to communicate, perhaps not very clearly, that another famous author had said it before!

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Who wrote this? Clue: they died in 1963.

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@marisaalbanese No. Aldous Huxley!

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@WinterPollan No. Aldous Huxley!

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A beautiful book deserves a beautiful bunch of flowers... OUT THIS WEEK! BUY IT!

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@edwereddie What's the book?

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@SandmanSimonds @EmilyVanDuyne No.

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@Mr_Dave_Haslam But wasn’t she kind of ill then?

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@sylviaplathinfo I always thought it was a Witches Coven (also 13)!

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If anyone has ever wondered what an archive might look like in the 32nd Century check out Episode 8 of the recent (and last) series of Star Trek Discovery. Hy'Rell, pictured here, has all the qualities you'd expect from a fourth millennium archivist... and, yes, there are BOOKS!

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Beatles nerds will notice that the date on the newspaper, February 11th 1963, is correct for the recording of the first Beatles LP, as featured in a recent episode of Dr Who. Plath nerds (and extreme weather historians) will notice that the weather is most definitely incorrect...

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@DBrookshire Although it's not explained why a copy of The Bell Jar, which wasn't published in the US until 1971 (with a similar cover to this), ended up in a book shop in Palm Beach in 1969!

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@JGordonBramer There was a typo in Ariel that wasn't spotted until the Four Printing in 1967....

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Sylvia Plath in Popular Culture XXIII: From Disney's "Horror Comedy" Goosebumps. An English Teacher trying to inspire his students, who have actually turned up for a Geography Class. Is this her first appearance in a Disney Production? Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

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Sylvia Plath in Popular Culture XXII (Julia, Season Two): There's a subplot about Julia Child's Publishers failing to secure the rights to the Sylvia Plath Estate in 1964. To add verisimilitude our hero also snogs Jacques Brel and flirts with Jean-Paul Sartre over lunch in Paris!

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Frieda Hughes' annotation on her copy of Sylvia Plath's Journals, for sale tomorrow at Bonhams: "My father told me that no one mentioned this [SP's 1953 suicide attempt] to him when he met my mother. No one warned him"...

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SYLVIA PLATH IN POPULAR CULTURE XXI (Interview With The Vampire): Usually I'd try and give you some kind of context but this one is just too weird!

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@sylviaplathinfo Peter, you'll be glad to know I've already been in touch to point out all the errors in their descriptions...