By J. H. Morrison, Contributing Editor
The "Present" column, however, counters that names are the only reality we have. "Call me Eva," she writes, "and I will bloom. Call me anything else, and I am only dirt." in blume second entry eva blume
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In a breathtaking chapter titled "The Root System," the "Echo" column confesses something the original novel only hinted at: Eva Blume is not the diarist’s real name. It is a persona she adopted after a childhood accident. "Blume" (flower) was a lie she told so beautifully that she forgot she was a weed. "Call me Eva," she writes, "and I will bloom
One particularly haunting passage in the Second Entry describes Eva sitting in a library, reading the first In Blume as if it were a stranger’s novel. She annotates the margins with corrections. "I didn't cry here," she writes. "I laughed." Later, the "Echo" column responds: "You lied then. You lie now. You are a liar in bloom." It is a persona she adopted after a childhood accident