Borrowing Robes

Outtakes from The Little Book of Heartbreak and thoughts on the creative process. And anything else that strikes my fancy.

Monday, August 13, 2012

NEW BLOG ADDRESS

Hiya,
I'm now blogging at www.meghanlaslocky.com/blog, so head on over now!
Thanks!
--Meghan
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Meghan Laslocky
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is the author of The Little Book of Heartbreak: Love Gone Wrong Through the Ages (forthcoming, Plume/Penguin January 2013). She is a freelance writer, editor and web producer based in the Bay Area. She has produced web sites for PBS and written articles for the likes of The San Francisco Chronicle and Salon.com.
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A tip of the hat to "Macbeth"

Remember in the first act of Macbeth, when Ross greets Macbeth as the Thane of Cawdor? "Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" Macbeth asks, not understanding at that point that he has, in effect, been promoted.

It's a moment that's always resonated with me, not just because it's a beautiful, sensual turn of phrase, but because of the poignancy of that moment of confusion and insecurity. I like the idea that you can, over the course of your life, borrow many, many robes.

Hence the title of my blog: In it, I want to borrow the robes of better, more disciplined writers; writing is, to me, part and parcel to compassion; and to me, "borrowing robes" -- disassociated with Macbeth, that is -- is a metaphor for stealthy exploration of what one can become.
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