The Rats Star

May 28, 2008 12:12

What significance do think "rats star" held for Sexton?

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suede May 28 2008, 19:08:28 UTC
rats live on no evil star
was one of her favourite palindromes, thats all i know :)

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aghostchild May 28 2008, 19:32:35 UTC
1. even good, beautiful stars are infested by rats, if you take the palindrome literally.
2. the fact you can change a word that symbolizes things normally thought to be repulsive to a word that symbolizes something almost all cultures revere as beautiful shows the power words have, the power of a poet. anne couldn't always control her own life, externally and internally tortured, but words gave her a way to turn rats into stars :)

at least, that's just my humble opinion.

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notwavedrowning June 29 2008, 05:15:21 UTC
I remember reading somewhere that she saw the palindrome mentioned above by edienoir writen on the side of a barn, I believe, in Ireland or something and falling in love with it. I sort of wonder too, given that some compulsive disorders drive people to read things backwards, if that didn't have something to do with it.

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