Comments on: The Bath of Wife http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-bath-of-wife Publishing Creative and Contemporary Writing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:07:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Halifax http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-566 Halifax Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:55:12 +0000 http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/#comment-566 I see behind this that an institution (such as marriage) can become so ritualized it attains a personality of its own. Here the wife has died and the personified ritual, now pushing morbid, is reaching its mortality as well. The bathe of (y)our wife is dead. Long live the Bath of Wife. I see behind this that an institution (such as marriage) can become so ritualized it attains a personality of its own. Here the wife has died and the personified ritual, now pushing morbid, is reaching its mortality as well.

The bathe of (y)our wife is dead. Long live the Bath of Wife.

]]> By: eleemosynary http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-562 eleemosynary Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:31:49 +0000 http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/#comment-562 that picture tickles my reflection center. if there's anywhere for a bath of wife it's there. you can almost see her fractured face about to float up and break the glass-water. but vampires work too. vampires and their dead girlfriends. that picture tickles my reflection center.
if there’s anywhere for a bath of wife it’s there.
you can almost see her fractured face about to float up and break the glass-water.

but vampires work too.
vampires and their dead girlfriends.

]]> By: fogman http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-561 fogman Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:39:52 +0000 http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/#comment-561 well, she does seem rather corpse-like, as if he were bathing his wife's body for burial. Didn't he do one a few years ago about the dead girlfriend, or was that someone else? well, she does seem rather corpse-like, as if he were bathing his wife’s body for burial. Didn’t he do one a few years ago about the dead girlfriend, or was that someone else?

]]> By: Editor http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-560 Editor Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:35:42 +0000 http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/#comment-560 It might be more digestible than we're making it out to be. We can always take it at surface level and say, "Well... he's giving his fragile wife a bath". Knowing Matt, it probably has something to do with vampires though. It might be more digestible than we’re making it out to be. We can always take it at surface level and say, “Well… he’s giving his fragile wife a bath”. Knowing Matt, it probably has something to do with vampires though.

]]> By: fogman http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-556 fogman Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:06:19 +0000 http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/#comment-556 I think she's an inverted character from Canterbury Tales I think she’s an inverted character from Canterbury Tales

]]> By: misener http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-555 misener Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:28:31 +0000 http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2008/02/12/the-bath-of-wife/#comment-555 I can honestly say that I am without anything to say here. Which is to say, I have nothing to say. Say you, say me. Say it together. Is there an inside joke in this piece? Is there some reference here I am missing? Some play on words? I feel like I need a shower. Bath of Wife? Staff of Life? Is she dead? Am I stooopid? I can honestly say that I am without anything to say here. Which is to say, I have nothing to say. Say you, say me.

Say it together. Is there an inside joke in this piece? Is there some reference here I am missing? Some play on words?

I feel like I need a shower. Bath of Wife? Staff of Life? Is she dead? Am I stooopid?

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