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bien @cafesbythesea the fig tree analogy, sylvia plath / my fig tree gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone. I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig-tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and off-beat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. Constantin's restaurant smelt of herbs and spices and sour cream. All the time I had been in New York I had never found such a restaurant. I only found those Heavenly Hamburger hamburgers and soup-of-the- 8:14 PM Apr 13, 2024 472 Views 171 3 13 librarian film director flight attendant poet/writer cafe/bakery forensic psychologist psychiatrist owner literature professor Σ photographer L→

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ellie @ellie_myron • Apr 15 i just KNOW sylvia plath is rolling in her grave over the way some ppl are using her fig tree analogy on tiktok rn singer jewelry maker videographer painter business owner model interior designer sahm lawyer realtor flight attendant
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