SUMMARIES to follow: PARAGRAPH, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, HAIKU, MORSE CODE.

THE PARAGRAPH SUMMARY.
I didn't like Holly Golightly. A 1940s woman that comported the way she did and was magnanimized by a sizzling contemporary author must have hit 'brass tacks' in early 1950's literature. From that perspective Breakfast at Tiffany's was something special. But, I didn't like Holly Golightly. She was mercurial, condescending, phony, a prick-tease; she was a vagabond that leached on others. Sure, a confident woman with quasi-sexual links to millionaires, imprisoned maffia kingpins, a swarthy Brazilian manly-man, and a provocative escape story from her youth makes for compelling storytelling. But, I didn't like Holly Golightly. She steamed through life, inconsequentially, letting others foam in her wake. It's a novella, and in less than 100 pages, 5x7 and 13 point font, Truman Capote entreats you to like or dislike Holly Golightly. I didn't. I think that Capote manuevered the story merely to present a few ringing, timeless, profound thoughts about life. The best, deliverd by Holly, and metaphorically about her escape from her husband was this: "Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell," Holly advised him. "That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky." Flying=flighty. That's it. That's why I didn't like Holly Golightly.

THE FACEBOOK SUMMARY.
Holly Golightly is a wannabe inamorata. A flirt, a nuisance, much maintenance required. You know my taste in women--she's not my type, so I find her disagreeable. However, Capote has a simple, compelling style of writing, an economy of words. Audrey Hepburn absolutely crushed Holly Golightly. Rent the movie over the book; it's 4 stars to 3.

THE TWITTER SUMMARY.
Capote is in love with Holly Golightly. I've got a problem with her, but the writing is good.

THE HAIKU SUMMARY.
Woman on cruise,
Skittering across class
Not for me.

THE MORSE CODE SUMMARY.
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I’ve seen the movie countless times, but I can’t remember the last time I saw it, but every time I have seen it, I’ve always been surprised by something I’ve either forgotten, or something I’ve seen in a new way.

I was looking for a way to keeping motivated to get through all this painting I’d planned, or at least as much of it as I can do myself, but it was so much easier, and tolerable with having an audio book to listen to. And I remembered my goodreads friend Jennifer, her review for Breakfast at Tiffany’s gave me the perfect choice.

An hour and a half of listening to it yesterday while painting, and another hour and a half of driving today to buy more paint, and I can only say that I loved this. Surprisingly, I loved the ‘book’ in a completely different way than the movie, and the narration by Michael C. Hall (Dexter) was amazingly!

Many thanks to Jennifer for her review that had me consider this as an audio. Please check out Jennifer’s review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The charm, the wit, the insouciance, what a lovely book. And what is with all these books with the unrequited man as narrator? It's such a popular narrative choice. It makes it seem like there is this legion of men who prefer to be on the outside, looking in on people who have the spark they do not.

Breakfast at Tiffany's, the movie, is a favorite of mine. I've seen it several times over the years and now, for the first time have read the novella on which it is based. I was very surprised by how different the novella is from the movie. The two have very little in common. The movie and the novella depict two very different sides of one girl; the hopefulness of possibility vs. the cruel hardship of reality.

The movie is set in New York City. It is light, fun and full of glamour. It casts Holly Golightly in a positive and likable light. Beneath the frivolousness, naïveté and false bravado there is a sweet vulnerability to her character.

The novella is stripped of all that sweetness, lightness and glamour. It is a sad and poignant version of the story. It is written in a spare dark tone. Gone are most of the whimsical mannerisms of the movie and in their place we meet a much different character - a harder edged Holly whose behavior and words often have a lot of bite. She is no longer naive, though she would like us to think she is and the false bravado now comes off as desperation.

Both the movie and the novella are very good. The novella is very well-written and an excellent character study but I have a long-standing place in my heart for the movie and Holly as played by Audrey Hepburn.

The Book Report: Miss Holiday Golightly, Traveling, meets a nameless man in her WWII-era brownstone, ignores and then abuses him, and never truly sees him (or anyone else, unless she has her prescription sunglasses on) as she pursues her life of errrmmm uhhh enthusiastic debauchery around the man-starved confines of Manhattan. Unsaid but completely obvious is the narrator's gayness: No man under 50 who wasn't in a sensitive occupation would be undrafted at the time he narrates unless he was 4F or queer. He never say anything, so we know which it was. In the end, Holly's crazy antics make it necessary for her to flee New York, and the narrator never sees her again; until, that is, a moment in 1957, when he sees a photo of a carving done in a small African village that is Holly to the life. He remembers it all, and he writes this tiny jewel of a story to free himself of Holly's long-buried hold on his mind and heart.

My Review: A breathtakingly beautiful story, told perfectly, with dialogue that (having rewatched the movie last night) stands out from the dross that surrounds it in the film like the Hope Diamond stands out from those Diamonique things in Kmart.

Oh how I wish the realities of films in 1960-1 had allowed for the *real* story, complete with its chilly, sociological eye for a certain class of striver that the USA produces, attracts, and celebrates in a dark, negative way with all kinds of judgments and exclusions, intact! How much more beautiful would Audrey Hepburn have been in an unsanitized Holly's Mainbocher dresses! And George Peppard (a dead ringer, only taller, for the youthful Capote) without the silly name and tacked-on "mistress" (played with stunning cruelty by gorgeous Patricia Neal), could have been a *huge* star on the back of that role.

But things were not as they could not be. And things never are, which is one of the messages Capote presents with a shade too much force for five-star perfection, and his of-the-time reticences and prejudices haven't worn well at all. But oh God, how happy I am this story is in our world, and how much I hope each of y'all will read it. Find your inner Holly. 'Tis the season, after all.

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Attempted to read in my teens, didn't do anything for me. Twenty-five years later, and now more literary adept, gave it another go. With much better results. Boy oh boy, could he write!.

It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction.

Holly is a petite little bundle of scandal in World War II New York society. She works her way through various characters, and any other men who can pay her tab. The narrator, an aspiring Capote-like writer, is her neighbor in their trendy-ish NYC apartment building. He is witness to her parade of gentlemen callers, and as he befriends her and falls in and out of love with her, bears witness to her dramas and the slowly revealed facets of her character and history.

The dialog in Breakfast at Tiffany's is snappy and moves along nicely, very much of the era, but it still sounds almost contemporary in tone if not in verbiage. Holly loves easily and leaves easily. She is easily angered and quick to forgive. She buys expensive gifts on a whim, expects to be treated to expensive things regularly. Eventually we find out where she's really from and how she became Manhattan's Girl About Town. Then she gets in some legal trouble and goes on the lam, leaving the narrator to pine wistfully over her postcards from Brazil or wherever she's fled to.

It's a cute, almost whimsical novel, and was probably much more scandalous when it was written. Neither the author nor the narrator ever come out and say that Holly is a lady of the night, but it's heavily implied. At best, she lives a sugar daddy lifestyle. Today her behavior would barely raise an eyebrow in Manhattan, but in the 40s, when it was written, such a female protagonist was more shocking.

Capote clearly wrote of his central characters with a big heart, of which there is also an echoing bittersweet sadness. It took little time at all to get into the story, which is sizewise of the short novel/lengthy novella mold. Doable in one or two sittings. A worthy read for sure.

O rochie neagra, manusi lungi asortate si o fermecatoare Audrey Hepburn - asta e tot ce ai nevoie pentru succes.
Un mini-roman fermecator, scris intr-un stil minimalist care a ramas in istoria literaturii in mare parte datorita filmului.
In ceea ce priveste actiunea avem in prim plan un scriitor aspirant care isi aduce aminte de vremurile in care in acelasi bloc unde el locuise a intalnit o vecina neobisnuita, pe Holly Golightly, care se recomanda simplu, Calatoarea. "Avea ochi mari, un pic albastrii, un pic verzi si presarati cu pete marunte cafenii, ochi multicolori, ca si parul ei; si, ca si parul ei, radiau o lumina calda, vie."
Holly este de-a dreptul fermecatoare, fiind excentrica, eleganta, rebela, nepasatoare, copilaroasa, mereu pusa pe sotii si o mica si adorabila mincinoasa. In jurul ei roiesc barbatii si ea pare sa stie sa spuna tuturor ce vor sa auda, avand o abilitate iesita din comun de a iesi nevatamata din orice situatie oricat de dificila ar fi. Stie sa cante la chitara si are o pisica roscata care seamana cu un pirat siret. Aceasta pare sa fie si singura ei posesiune.
De ce acest titlu? Pentru ca Holly are obiceiul sa se duca la Tiffany atunci cand ceva o nelinisteste. Considera ca splendoarea si tihna de acolo ii ofera siguranta de sine si o fac sa se simta bine. Spune despre Tiffany ca e "un loc unde nimic rau nu se poate intampla."
Mi-a placut mult felul in care vede ea ce inseamna cu adevarat a fi scriitor: "cu alte cuvinte, scumpule, cumpara cineva ce scrii?" De asemenea ea insista ca protagonistul sa nu-si publice povestirile gratis ci sa astepte pana obtine si un beneficiu financiar pentru ele.
Mi s-a parut putin inestetic fontul mare pe care editura a alea sa-l foloseasca, probabil din considerente de a face cartea sa para mai groasa.
Am selectat o sumedenie de citate care in mare parte dezvaluie personalitatea extraordinara a fetei-minune Holly:
"N-o sa ma obisnuiesc niciodata cu nimic. Cine se obisnuieste e ca si mort."
"Pur si simplu m-am educat singura sa-mi placa barbatii mai in varsta si asta a fost cel mai inteligent lucru pe care l-am facut vreodata."
"Fireste, lumea nu se putea sa nu-si inchipuie ca trebuie sa fi fost si eu cam lesbiana. Si fireste ca sunt. Toata lumea e nitel."
"Sunt tare putine lucruri despre care poti discuta cu barbatii. Daca unui barbat nu-i place baseballul, atunci trebuie sa-i placa mult caii, iar daca nu-i plac nici una, nici alta, oricum s-a terminat, inseamna ca nu-i plac nici fetele."
"... se spune ca nu poti sa fii vedeta de cinema daca n-ai o personalitate foarte puternica; dar, de fapt, trebuie sa nu ai personalitate deloc."
"As dori sa raman aceeasi cand o sa ma trezesc intr-o frumoasa dimineata si o sa-mi iau micul dejun la Tiffany."
"Mag reprezinta triumful asupra urateniei, deseori mult mai atragator decat adevarata frumusete, mai ales pentru ca se bazeaza pe un paradox."
"In regula, sa spunem ca ai o inima calda. Dar daca as fi un barbat pe cale sa se culce cu tine, as lua cu mine o sticla cu apa fierbinte. E mai sigur."
"Vreau sa spun ca nu poti sa faci amor cu un tip si sa-i iei banii fara macar sa te prefaci ca il iubesti."

As far as short stories/novellas go, this was outstanding. Excellent writing and character development. And to top it all, a snarky and amusing narrator. I can’t wait to read it again.

4.0**
had to bump this up to 4 stars after rereading. It's a delightful read and Holiday Golightly easily absorbs you into her life.

"You can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get.... if you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky." (Holiday Golightly).

Holiday "Holly" Golightly is pursued by mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires. She is a heart-breaker, a traveller, a perplexer and a tease. She is mean and she is kind, she is naive yet knowledgable, her character is contradictory. She lives in a dream and never settles into one place, ready to take flight. She's unique and she is an enigma, and this is what draws the narrator, "Fred" , in.

This story is told from "Fred's" POV. He is looking at Holly's social circle from the outside in, trying to make way into the circle where martini parties, gramophone music and socialising take place. It follows how he thinks and feels about Holly, her turbulent lifestyle and how him and Holly meet and interact during their time spent together. Largely it faces how he is intrigued by her, and through this curiosity and wonder, he forms a love for her.

Through their interactions together, "Fred" also meets a number of interesting characters intertwined with Holly's life. Truman Capote does a brilliant job of writing and describing these characters and their settings, that it is easy to imagine the scenes of the book.

Through these interactions and the revealing and unravelling of characters, you begin to understand that Holly's life has had some very dark moments, despite her usual put-together appearances and fun lifestyle.

Holly's character is definitely a tease and her life-style sounds so interesting. There's constant socialising, propositions and scandal- she never has a dull moment. Her life is especially interesting to imagine through the time period of 1940s New York. Her character is definitely the opposite to most people and this is what draws you in to her. She is an enigma and she is fascinating.

This book also contained 3 short stories: "House of Flowers", "A diamond guitar" and "A Christmas Memory." All were very well written and lyrical in their prose. My favourite was "A Christmas Memory" which examines an important friendship between a young boy and his older cousin. It explores loneliness and friendship and you develop empathy for these characters. It was a short story and gripped me from the start.

Overall a rather good modern classic and a very easy read ! ☺️

n  “If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.”n

Told in a reflective and almost lyrical tone, this is the story of a writer, referred to as 'Fred', who reminisces about the neighbor he fell for back in 1943. The thing is, I’m not sure if we ever get a glimpse of the real Holly Golightly.

An enigma of sorts; Holly’s not one to get attached or share much of anything about her past. She avoids the truth by putting a fun and often ridiculous spin on things and she’s full of biting comments. It’s hard to say who she really is under that facetious facade. From all outward appearances, she’s a nineteen-year-old woman who enjoys the company of many men and pretty things. A woman making her way, amidst the excitement and wonder of New York City.

The few things she openly admits - the soft spot she has for her brother (the actual Fred) and her cure for the mean reds. She claims being surrounded by the quiet of Tiffany’s, although we don’t actually see any of that in the book, is enough to calm her soul. You can’t think of the movie, read this book, or in my case listen to the audio without picturing Audrey Hepburn as Holly. She’s become synonymous with Breakfast at Tiffany’s. So my question is - what happened to the trips to Tiffany’s and the ring? Having seen the movie several times before listening to the audio, it felt to me like a piece of the story was missing. With a very different ending, the book didn’t come across as the great love story the movie did. It almost makes me cringe to say this, but I actually enjoyed the movie a tad bit more than the book.

The crazy cat lady in me has to mention how heartbroken I was that Holly left her “cat” behind, too. How could she? At least, he ended up with a home, I guess. And maybe even a name.

If you’re a Dexter fan, like me, you’ll love this audio. Michael C. Hall is the narrator and his voice is pretty unique. There were a few times his voice for Holly made me laugh, but for the most part, his narration was heavenly. At just under three hours, I found this to be a quick but wholly enjoyable listen.

Miss Holiday Golightly, Traveling

She is no phony, Miss Holly! She is for me one of the most fascinating and authentic symbols of the modern era. That last word that was missing from the famous movie version with Audrey Hepburn: 'Traveling'. That's the word that describe her best. She is running away from the 'mean reds', from a childhood of poverty and abuse. She is running towards something beautiful, something true, something better than the phony New York night life with its huge crop of mega rats who wouldn't even give a girl a fifty dollar note for the powder room. Holly dreams of something decent, clean and bright, something polite and respectful, something peaceful and beautiful. She calls it Tiffany and in her songs it sounds just like home:

Don't wanna sleep,
Don't wanna die,
Just wanna go a-travellin'
through the pastures of the sky

To be alive is to be a traveler, to fight back against the mean reds, to dream about that early morning in front of the sparkling window display at Tiffany's, about that horse farm in Mexico or about a log cabin by a stream somewhere high up in the Rocky Mountains. I think it is much better to be a Holly Golightly than to settle down early, marking time until you get a pension and a gold watch, wondering where did your life go so fast. Some people call her a phony, irresponsible, unreliable, silly and self-serving (as with her involvement with Sally Tomato), but I prefer that little line the narrator throws away somewhere in the middle of the novella, calling her :   a lopsided romantic, gluttonous for everything on the menu  . Holly's greatest achievement is that she doesn't become a cynic in the midst of all the rats of New York's high society. She cares sometimes too much, about her brother Fred, about Doc Golightly, about her writer buddy upstairs, about her cat without a name and about her dreams of Tiffany's. Would you settle in her place for a marriage of convenience and a simple role of housewife? Holly even gave up a possible successful career in Hollywood, another dream factory where the gold is made of tinsel paper:

If I do feel guilty, I guess it's because I let him go on dreaming when I wasn't dreaming a bit. I was just vamping for time to make a few self-improvements

Self-improvement is another quality to add to the list of Holly Golighty accomplishments. She got dealt a bad hand in the beginning of her life, but she refused to stay down, even when a kind man offered her shelter (Doc). She had a goal and she decided to work hard to get there, refusing to settle down for less.

I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like. It's like Tiffany's.

Some people might get trampled underfoot when coming across such a determinate young woman. In many ways, the novella is better than the movie (in almost all ways, except for missing the extraordinary presence of Audrey Hepburn), and I'm thinking here of the risks and compromises one has to make in life if he or she wants to succeed. In the movie, Holly settles down for marriage. In the novella she flies off, still chasing her dream. Here is the best passage from both versions:

Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell. That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time is was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

What many people fail to notice is the small addendum to the famous quote, the confession and admission that Holly knows what the price of her freedom is, and what a lonely, possibly disappointing destination waits for her at the end of the journey:

Believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

The novella ends without giving a clear answer to the final destination of Holly Golightly, and I prefer it this way. This way I can imagine her still traveling, in the hot jungles of Central Africa or across the ice covered peaks of the Himalayas, partying with the jet set in Gstaad or living quietly on a ranch in Argentina, singing that Mancini tune on guitar as she watches the sunset.

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Sometimes one piece of work is enough to decide on the talent of a writer, and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is such an accomplishment. Norman Mailer said it best when he exclaimed that he wouldn't change two words from it. With the other three short stories included in the present volume, Truman Capote demonstrates that he is not a one-hit-wonder, and he weaves the magic of words again and again, with beautiful, eloquent and concise prose, creating memorable characters with incredible ease .

House of Flowers is the bittersweet story of a young peasant girl from Port-au-Prince. Ottilie is so beautiful and cheerful, she becomes the most sought after whore in town, but her heart yearns for the simple pleasures of life away from the big city and from its dubious pleasures. She runs away with a dirt poor young boy from nowhere, and learns to find beauty and pleasure in her new home. Some fun interludes showcase the ways Ottilie deals with her cranky mother-in-law.

Diamond Guitar reads like the basic template from which years later Stephen King will cast his novella "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption". Replace the poster of the diva with a cheap guitar decorated with glass beads and you have the same basic story of life inside a prison, about people who prefer to remain inside instead of facing the dangers of the world outside, and about people who would do anything to be free. Mr. Scheffer is the man condemned to life behind bars, Tico Feo is a young Cuban immigrant who plays music and dreams of becoming a sailor.

The stars were his pleasure, but tonight they did not comfort him; they did not make him remember that what happens to us on earth is lost in the endless shine of eternity. Gazing at them - the stars - he thought of the jeweled guitar and its worldly shimmer.

A Christmas Memory should be as famous as "Breakfast at Tiffany's", it's incredibly powerful and true. And it is mostly autobiographical, a way for Capote to pay homage to the best friend of his childhood:

In addition to never having seen a movie, she has never: eaten in a restaurant, traveled more than five miles from home, received or sent a telegram, read anything except funny papers and the Bible, worn cosmetics, cursed, wished someone harm, told a lie on purpose, let a hungry dog go hungry. Here are a few things she has done, does do: killed with a hoe the biggest rattlesnake ever seen in this county (sixteen rattles), dip snuff (secretly), tame hummingbirds (just try it) till they balance on her finger, tell ghost stories (we both believed in ghosts) so tingling they chill you in July, talk to herself, take walks in the rain, grow the prettiest japonicas in town, know the receipt for every sort of old-time Indian cure, including a magical wart-remover.

She doesn't have a name in the story, she doesn't need one, she is simply called 'my friend' and these become under the pen of Truman Capote the most beautiful words in the English language. This last novella is one that should be read to kids and family around the Christmas dinner, just before you cut the whisky fruitcake .

n  It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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کدبانو، خانواده‌دار، محترم، وابسته، معمولی، بدون آرزوهای بزرگ

این تصویر زن ایده‌آل دهه‌ی چهل آمریکاست. تصویری که هالی گولایتلی در ��ون نمی گنجه
هالی جذاب، رها، دیوانه و رام نشدنیه و در یک سفر همیشگی زندگی می کنه. متعلق به هیچکس نیست و هیچکس و هیچ چیز هم متعلق به او نیست. حتی گربه‌ی بی‌اسمش. آپارتمانش جوریه که انگار ساکنش هر لحظه در حال رفتنه، چون هالی هنوز خونه‌ش رو پیدا نکرده

این بخش جالب این کاراکتر فراموش نشدنیه، همون بخشی که هالیوود رو شیفته کرد و توسط آدری هپبورن زیبا به تصویر در اومد

ولی هالی در کتاب ترومن کاپوتی فقط این نیست. بسیار سیاه‌تره. دختری که در چهارده سالگی به خاطر یتیم بودن ازدواج کرده، دختری که هویت و اسمش رو عوض کرده و با اینکه به طور مستقیم گفته نمی‌شه فاحشه‌ست، واضحه که از رفت و آمد با مردان گذران زندگی می‌کنه. هالی دوره‌های افسردگی شدید داره و با اینکه در ظاهر زندگی شلوغ و جذابی داره، در واقع تنهاست. در توهم استقلال زندگی میکنه ولی شاید حتی از زنان دیگه به مردان وابسته تره. معلوم نیست که گاهی خودش رو به حماقت می زنه یا واقعا انقدر سادست که توسط رئیس مافیا به بازی گرفته بشه

ترومن کاپوتی رو از کتاب معروفش "در کمال خونسردی" می‌شناختم. قلمش با وجود جذابیت مخصوص به خودش و آمریکایی بودن، سردی خاصی داره. این سردی اینجا در نگاه راوی داستان حس میشه. یک جور بی‌تفاوتی در عین توجه زیاد. راوی‌ای که اول داستان احتمال مردن یا بستری بودن هالی در یک بیمارستان روانی رو مثل یک حقیقت خیلی معمولی میگه ولی همون فرد ساعت‌ها دنبال گربه‌ی هالی می‌گرده

برای خواننده‌ی قرن بیست و یک مزه‌پرانی‌های نژادپرستانه و دید تحقیر آمیز نسبت به هم جنس‌گرایان به شدت توی چشم می‌زنه و نمی‌تونم فکر نکنم که شاید گاهی از قصد این کار رو می‌کنه. با توجه به اینکه خود کاپوتی آشکارا همجنس‌گرا بوده، در مورد گرایش جنسی راوی داستان که نویسنده هم هست، حدث و گمان و تحلیل زیاده

هالی گولایتلی تشابهات زیادی با الهه‌ی هالیوود مرلین مونرو داره و اگر بدونید که کاپوتی و مونرو دوستان نزدیکی بودند دلیلش رو می‌فهمید.[کاپوتی حتی یک داستان درباره‌ی پرسه زدن‌هاش در نیویورک با مونرو نوشته] هر دو زن، گمشده، تحسین‌شده و تنها هستند و دنیا تصمیم گرفته فقط بخشی از وجودشون رو ببینه. با دونستن این قضیه شاید بهتر بشه داینامیک عجیب بین هالی و همسایه‌ی نویسنده‌اش رو درک کرد. شیفتگی‌ای که جنسی نیست، و بیشتر تمایل به بودن در کنارشه، نه باهاش. چیزی شبیه به رابطه‌ی کاپوتی و مونرو.

و در نهایت این جمله، که همه‌ی "هالی"ها رو خلاصه می کنه

Never love a wild thing … you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky.

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