Don’t talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen — physical or psychological — wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like. — Sylvia Plath, Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1976)-–-Letter to Aurelia Plath (1962-10-21)