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Her love of books was genuine, and if it seems that she lost no opportunity to be photographed while reading it was only a desperate need to be taken seriously as a human being and as a thinking, intellectually curious, down-to-earth woman with something extra beyond her obvious physical charms that motivated her; she should be forgiven. The magic castle of Hollywood and her image had become a prison and she did what many of the incarcerated do to keep from going insane. She retreated into the private world of books and explored her thoughts and feelings as a diarist and journal-keeper…
An emotionally fragile woman, it is in photographs like the above that Monroe’s intelligence shines through her eyes. And as we readers know, the world is never better than when sitting down, comfortably in a robe, lost in a good book. Cares melt away. I suspect that she was never more content than when in the company of books. They don’t betray. They won’t wound you.
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