Please don't see the film Eraserhead

A mixed mailbag

Jan 18, 2025

“Dear Mom....and Dad, please don't see the film Eraserhead......and Don't tell anyone I did.”—David Lynch writes to his parents, 1977 (From ‘Room to Dream' – by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna)

The only way the American Christmas could be simplified would be to change the date from December 25 to February 29. Then it would come every four years. I’ve advocated this for a long time but nobody pays attention to me.

E. B. White
Letter to Mrs. Cushman
17th January 1984

—Letters of E. B. White

When you are sick you can’t trust strangers, so I prefer to set up things myself and to do everything by myself, as there is no recourse. And it’s not that Diego doesn’t care, but, in the first place, in these cases men are really useless, and in the second place, they are not aware of what is happening to women, don’t you think? They think everything is ‘nothing’ as long as there is nothing happening to them, but if it were happening, the world would crumble.

Frida Kahlo
Letter to her mother
14th January 1932

—You are Always With Me: Letters to Mama