When Tim, Jacqui & Jennifer are touring, I like to deep dive into my favorite Princeton characters ….

I love to deep dive into my favorite Princeton characters  ….. the last few days has been T.S. Eliot whose love (or lack thereof) life has always fascinated me.

With his first wife, Vivienne, T.S. experienced an unhappy marriage and she suffered from terrible mental illness. He moved to the US and left her in England which drove her to a stalker status to try and talk to him.  It got so bad he eventually committed her to a mental asylum against her will only to visit her once in 15 years and that was just to tell her he wanted a separation! (I mean, I GET that she was A LOT … Virginia Woolf described her as “Oh – Vivienne! Was there ever such a torture since life began! – to bear her on one’s shoulders, biting, wriggling, raving, scratching, unwholesome, powdered, insane, yet sane to the point of insanity, reading his letters, thrusting herself on us, coming in wavering trembling … This bag of ferrets is what Tom [Eliot] wears round his neck.”  (Prior to her break down, she was described as a stunningly brave fashionista, preferring bright decor in her home and selected unique robes and layers of interesting fabrics as her wardrobe.  Anyhoo ….. you’re not going to write pieces like “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”,  “Wasteland” and “The Cocktail Party” if you’ve only experienced awesome relationships, right?  )