STRINGS OF TIME
THE CASE OF JOSEPHINE H.
Ed has been implacable
He certainly knew all the subtle ways of killing the art instinct in me ---the shock of learning that he had any such wish --way back --when we were first married ---nearly did the thing so incredible , so unspeakably low down ....so in direct contradiction of all his attitude before we married ....
he wrote to 2 museum directors commending my work -----imagine
thereafter , ...not too gradually appears the will to extinguish ....the ghastliness of this one can't quite ever outlive.
a very fine book some German specialist --in the light of which I find myself entirely normal.
imagine entirely normal , like any other woman , not a professional....
it took about 5 yrs to get Ed to read this book...
not he , he knew everything...
/ October 12----1944/
Josephine Hopper
cytowany za Gail Levin - Edward Hopper / An Intimate Biography- Rizzoli - New York -2007/