A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

“You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi”

Angela & Uncle Jerry discuss how the hand squeeze in the back of a taxi is a private, intimate gesture that doesn't need to be made public. Uncle Jerry connects this to John Donne's poem about how he doesn't need to profane his love by making it public because his wife knows it. Angela extends this by noting the Reputation album was born out of a period of secrecy and private relationship.