<div dir="ltr"><div>Somebody has to say it: A premonitory promontory?</div><div><br></div><div>Mary Ellen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 7:20 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kllevenback@att.net" target="_blank">kllevenback@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>A dear friend of mine living in Australia just wrote to ask the following;
he also included the attached photo.</div>
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<div>Can anyone help?</div>
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<div>“I have a literary favour to ask. On a clifftop in Sussex stands a
decommissioned lighthouse that rejoices under the name of Belle Tout (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Tout_lighthouse)" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/<wbr>wiki/Belle_Tout_lighthouse)</a>.
My question is this. Is it true that Sylvia Plath stayed there while writing
some of the poems in her posthumously published collection Crossing the water?
There is no particular reason you should know, but with your literary
connections I thought perhaps you might know where to look. There is a solitary
passing reference to it on-line, but since it's the only one, I must treat it
with caution. </div>
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<div>My curiosity was aroused by a possible synchronicity. Of all the writerly
retreats that Plath could possibly have chosen, why choose the only one that
looks out on the world's premier suicide spot, Beachy Head? The attached photo
shows the view that Plath would have had from her window. Given the acres of
print that have been written about her, you would think that other writers would
have spotted the premonitory connection. But apparently not. </div>
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<div>Surely I am not the first? Any guidance, or indeed incisive thoughts, would
be welcome.”</div>
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<div>With thanks--</div>
<div>Karen Levenback</div></div></div></div>
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