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Too Personal and Adulatory

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morphmaker

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A Dickinson fancomic. Panel 1: Text reads, "After Emily Dickinson's death, Susan Dickinson destroyed any correspondence from Emily that she considered 'too personal and adulatory.'" Panel 2: Susan's daughter Martha is holding a stack of papers and is sitting with Susan in front of a fire. Martha asks, "Mom, do you want to keep the one where Aunt Emily calls you 'the only woman in the world?'" Susan replies, "Yes, put that in the keep pile."
Panel 3: Martha continues asking Susan about each piece of correspondence. "'Susan knows she is a siren?' "That's fine, keep it." "'You have told me more knowledge than anyone living'" "Keep" "The one where she refers to herself as 'Susan's idolator'" "Absolutely keep."
Panel 4: Close-up of Martha's hand holding out a piece of paper. "What about this one?" she asks. Panel 5: Susan holds the piece of paper and says, "Oh, no... I'll have to destroy this one - it is too personal and adulatory." Panel 6: The piece of correspondence they are discussing says, "Sue - You spin my Head right round, right round - when you go down, when you go - down, down!"

The series finale of Apple TV+’s Dickinson will reveal the poems that Susan Dickinson considered to be too adulatory.

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