#606 The Letter to the Foundation- Lydia Davis
This is a fictional thank you letter from an author to a foundation that has rewarded her with a grant. It’s scatterbrained, frantic, way too much personal information, and it was written many years after the grant had already expired. You can see from this letter why. She is the most unorganized and unfocused person you can imagine. It’s a wonder she got a grant in the first place. The foundation community for would certainly have had second thoughts if this was her application letter.
Seriously, this letter made me both nervous and angry. It was like listening to someone on speed tell you their life story.
What an astonishingly tone-deaf and generally uncomprehending comment, the one above! This Letter is a blazing masterpiece of subtelty, understatement, anguish and wry self-observation, all mixed up. End of.
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