Eloquent Entropy in a Bell Jar

She swallowed sleeping pills at about 10 o'clock, but prattled on for an hour or more about people I didn't know as if they were mutual friends.
   She seemed to be rambling, and I thought it was because she was growing sleepy.
   Then her tone changed, and she talked emotionally and energetically about [poet] Ted [Hughes] and Assia Wevill, the woman he had left her for.
   Writer Jillian Becker recalls February 1963, when poet Sylvia Plath and her children came to live with her and her family for a time, just days before Plath ended her life: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21336933
   A few well-chosen quotes (slideshow): http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/11/sylvia-plath-death-quotes_n_2660734.html?ir=Books&ref=topbar#slide=1689621
   Watching a poet grow through her works: http://www.npr.org/2013/02/11/171186656/on-the-50th-anniversary-of-sylvia-plaths-death-a-look-at-her-beginning