Words About James           



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other publications
almost charmed

insouciance
as immortality

heroines almost
entirely

feminist?

Chapter Five

Now opened his mouth in spite of himself. "This," the dramatic
situation. "Here," no doubt and a confidant, funny from imagine.
"It would be our Empire's malaise." A haunted man, unsettled.
Yet it wasn't all the same. In London, a hundred gas lamp
fogs. Such a trifle as the climax, light marrying the very
basis of itself, marrying himself to light. Precisely the
matter was type. A landscape of circumstance like
a hunchback still more beautiful for the exposure. Exposure
of what? End of a period, the beginning of a sentence. All that
could in the least be called behavior. Dissimulation. Knowing that.
The amount of talk the difference between states of folly
and of love. "Your habit saves you at least," she had said. Tracks
of eloquence. A vision much richer for strange.

 


the simultaneity
of dramatic acts

rangey syntax
of innocence
possessed
of treachery

                      claws into       an infinite self-expansion       (of the distant group)

                               (of the proximate mirror)       lettering the arbitrary       vagrant gaze

                                                                "a person on whom nothing is lost"