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"Happy" is a rather childish descriptor. I don't mean that as a put-down: only that it may be often rightly used to describe children, but rarely rightly used to describe adults.
I am "happiest" when with my children. But I am most deeply moved by memories of my wife, now dead. I would not all my state "happy", but it includes deep joy.
In Wolfe's work there are no happy endings. The complex alloy of adult human emotional life is too strong and too various simply to be called "happy".
hartshorn
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From: "maa32" <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:36 AM
what he writes won't get published? Sometimes he sounds so sad, other times he makes comments like: "everything I write is great". Remember that one essay in Castle of Days ( I think) where he talks about where he gets his inspiration from? Waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat and realizing that your parents and your friends are long dead, calling out in dreams to a mother who can no longer hold you ... > I have no training in psychology or anything, but sometimes I wonder if he is a happy guy.