Did Marilyn Monroe read T.S. Eliot?? She read Beckett, Whitman, Proust and Rilke; the list goes on. As I am reading a book on Marilyn, Fragments, I am drawn to her use of language and the things that she talks about such as reality and time- the present and the past. It all reminds me so much of Beckett and Eliot. She seems to fear silence the way that many of us do. Sometimes it is not so much a fear but a realization of how painful silence can seem. So why do many of us wish for "a moment of silence"? surprise you. Marilyn Monroe may have seemed to be a "dumb blonde", extraordinarily beautiful sex symbol and lived a "glamorous" life; but we are all humans struggling in the same chaotic world nonetheless.
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