Sylvia Plath Quote
Ordering drinks always floored me. I didn't know whisky from gin andnever managed to get anything I really liked the taste of. Buddy Willard andthe other college boys I knew were usually too poor to buy hard liquor orthey scorned drinking altogether. It's amazing how many college boys don'tdrink or smoke. I seemed to know them all. The farthest Buddy Willard everwent was buying us a bottle of Dubonnet, which he only did because he wastrying to prove he could be aesthetic in spite of being a medical student.I'll have a vodka, I said.The man looked at me more closely. With anything?Just plain, I said. I always have it plain.I thought I might make a fool of myself by saying I'd have it with iceor gin or anything. I'd seen a vodka ad once, just a glass full of vodkastanding in the middle of a snowdrift in a blue light, and the vodka lookedclear and pure as water, so I thought having vodka plain must be all right.My dream was someday ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.
Ordering drinks always floored me. I didn't know whisky from gin andnever managed to get anything I really liked the taste of. Buddy Willard andthe other college boys I knew were usually too poor to buy hard liquor orthey scorned drinking altogether. It's amazing how many college boys don'tdrink or smoke. I seemed to know them all. The farthest Buddy Willard everwent was buying us a bottle of Dubonnet, which he only did because he wastrying to prove he could be aesthetic in spite of being a medical student.I'll have a vodka, I said.The man looked at me more closely. With anything?Just plain, I said. I always have it plain.I thought I might make a fool of myself by saying I'd have it with iceor gin or anything. I'd seen a vodka ad once, just a glass full of vodkastanding in the middle of a snowdrift in a blue light, and the vodka lookedclear and pure as water, so I thought having vodka plain must be all right.My dream was someday ordering a drink and finding out it tasted wonderful.
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About Sylvia Plath
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. Plath later studied with Robert Lowell at Boston University, alongside poets Anne Sexton and George Starbuck. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. Their relationship was tumultuous and, in her letters, Plath alleges abuse at his hands. They had two children before separating in 1962.
Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life and was treated multiple times with early versions of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She died by suicide in 1963.