Word: bogeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away from Murry; she spent much time in the south of France trying to recover, but even more in a kind of private hell. The letters are bulletins posted outside the sick room of her soul. At first, pet names (she was "Tig" or "Wig," he was "Jag" or "Bogey") and candid passion masked the symptoms. "I love you with every inch of me . . . You are my perfect lover . . . Hold me, Bogey, when I write those words, for I am in your arms . . . Now I am giving you all sorts of little hugs and kisses, and now big ones...
Pigeons Are Cruel. World War I came and stayed, and Tig began hitting the dips on her psychological roller coaster. Her only brother was killed, she was trapped in France, and Bogey worked overtime in a War Office job. After the war, Bogey edited a little magazine. Tig chipped in with reviews, and shuttled wearily between
...letter after letter, she rinsed herself in the dirty tub water of her miseries. It so nauseated one erstwhile friend of both Murrys, D. H. Lawrence, that he wrote cruelly to her: "I loathe you. You revolt me stewing in your consumption . . ." Tig instructed Bogey: "You must hit him when you see him. There's nothing else...
Indifferent to conventional religious faiths, she was seeking consolation and cure in the occult doctrines of a magnetic Georgian mystic named George Ivanovich Gurdjieff,-when death cut all her questions short on Jan. 9, 1923. Bogey had Tig's tombstone inscribed with a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV. It was a line which she had always loved and sometimes lived by: "But I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...
Laying the Ghost. In Bloomington, Ind., after his parents had told him to keep out of the barn because "there's a bogey man in there," five-year-old Philip Oliver smoked him out by burning down the barn...