Diane Arbus, Chaucer

The best read of the week was from Diane Arbus' student essay on Chaucer in 1940.

Chaucer seems to be very sure and whole and his attitude toward everything is so calm and tender because he was satisfied and glad that he was himself .... He seems to love physical things, even obscene ones, and from looking at them, he gets a contact with the other person. His way of looking at everything is like that of a newborn baby: he sees things and each one seems wonderful, not for its significance in relation to other things, but simply because it is unique and because it is there.

Wonderful what you can write when you don't quite know what you're saying, then go on saying it, through your work, for the rest of your life.