To the Editor:

I thoroughly agree with Gerald Skey concerning the excellence of Stuart Mitchner’s talents beyond counting. I also salute our great good fortune to be expanded and delighted by his consciousness week after week. I have written you on this subject in other years, going so far as to say that the privilege of reading Stuart is reason enough to live in our region.

He has a particular gift for connecting the unconnectable — and making it work! I am forever fascinated by his juxtapositions. It feels as though there are no limits to this talent!

“’Dark Passage’ in a Dark Time” [May 20] is a tour-de-force. Of course, I cherish all the references to poetry, his recounting of actual phrases from novel/film, catalyzed by Frost’s “Mending Wall.”

Stuart could probably tie the Gilgamesh Epic to this viral virulence! Or Beowulf. 

As my antidote to microbial menace, I am not currently watching mysteries; rather nature films. Yet, I particularly resonate to Stuart’s description of the effects of these watchings: “[They] add  mystique to our daily lives in a time of masks and menace.”

Did I realize before that HE is a poet?

I thank you, Town Topics, also  — as does Gerald Skey — for providing this loftiness, these connections week upon week!

Carolyn Foote Edelmann
Juniper Court, Lawrenceville