From Sarah Jumel
Your article on snowmen (“Meltdown”, 19 December 1998, p 46) left out one
particularly poignant literary reference—that of St Francis’s snow family.
It was recorded that once he made a wife and children out of snow and claimed
that that would have to be enough for him. Mere loneliness might be enough to
make one want to build a snowman, or indeed to create any image.
sjumel@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
