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(I dont think Dickinson and Whitman ever really met?
But I could be wrong about that!)
But lets take this one step at a time.
Ems letter to Higginson does, in fact, make it to South Carolina as did Henry!
It turns out they were headed to the same place, how poetic.
Henry is on hand for a job interview.
In real life, Higginson was putting together this federally unauthorized regiment of Black soldiers.
(As Henry quickly learns, maybe its best to start with the ABCs.)
Until very recently this was an operation slave plantation, Higginson allows.
But we are in a safe space.
I lost it when their take on Massachusetts was I definitely heard massa.
Their training situation sounds a lot likeHoles.
They dont have new clothes or weapons.
Theyre not being paid, which … yikes.
And even when theydoget paid, these promised payments are lower than what white soldiers are making.
So even the progress around here is not particularly progressive.
Its all veryGone with the Wind.
She disappears to her greenhouse remember the gift of the greenhouse!
Walt is alotso, this is perfect casting.
COSMOS, DEMOCRACY, MANHATTAN, I AM NEW YORK.
Walt is delighted by these marching orders.
Lets go hurt ourselves!
All these men, he tells Em, are dying of multiple causes.
A lot of dysentery going around.
Really making this scene a party is the return of Zosia Mamet as Louisa May Alcott!
Like how woundsactuallysmell bad, she reports.
Never change, LMA.
or shout I AM YOUR DADDY, and then just hard mouth-kiss a man who is mid-mortal-coil-shedding.
(To Louisas scandalized face: Like you never saw two men embrace on your dads commune?
(This is where I feel like the idea of this as a fantasy for Em falls apart.
Am I alone here?)
Walt wants to know.
Shes sort of my friend, shes sort of my sister, and shes also sort of my Lover?
So endorsed, Em follows a woman onto the dance floor and goes wild.
Good for you, Em.
Speaking of Sue: Things with Austin are pretty terrible.
But when we met Sue, she was an orphan.
We do know that Sue (again, understandably) is pissed that Austin is drunk all the time.
Theyre such a bad match.
I feel like theyd both be happier if they cut their losses!
Would divorce shame them both for all time?
Is this a metaphor or just a completely irrelevant C-plot?
