On an innane TV reality program about "natives" from the tiny Pacific island of Tanne coming to America, the chief remarks on a Wyoming ranch, "What a tragedy; with so much fat cattle and such a fat wallet you have to die like everyone else." Winter Solstice momento mori.

Karen's Letters from Africa -- so much unsaid since she was writing to her mother; such intense rationalization; she created an entire body of work based on the fact her lover would not marry her.