Marsha -
How did you become interested in Ms. MacLane?
Why the detached interview?
I read the shattering first words of her 1902 book, written at age 19 in
Butte. It was like putting my finger into a light-socket.
* * *
Butte, Montana.
January 13, 1901.
I OF womankind and of nineteen years, will now begin to set down as full and
frank a Portrayal as I am able of myself, Mary Mac Lane, for whom the world
contains not a parallel.
I am convinced of this, for I am odd.
I am distinctly original innately and in development.
I have in me a quite unusual intensity of life.
I can feel.
I have a marvelous capacity for misery and for happiness.
I am broad-minded.
I am a genius.
I am a philosopher of my own good peripatetic school.
I care neither for right nor for wrong—my conscience is nil.
My brain is a conglomeration of aggressive versatility.
I have reached a truly wonderful state of miserable morbid unhappiness.
I know myself, oh, very well.
I have attained an egotism that is rare indeed.
I have gone into the deep shadows.
All this constitutes oddity. I find, therefore, that I am quite, quite odd.
* * *
MRB
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