Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 1/26/03: But I felt anger, more than hurt.

Jacob Lawrence, "War No. 6 The Letter" (1946) — Jacob Lawrence, *War No. 6 The Letter* (1946)

January 26, 2003:

But I felt anger, more than hurt. Why's it necessary to be so rude? You could say, for instance, "Thanks, that really had some cute moments." It would be true, and it would be positive, and it would be trying. To drench these things I love in scorn seems unnecessarily cold.