MRB, Ah yes, I can imagine the egotism of a nineteen-year-old girl could be an excitement. Anything more? Marsha On Jul 26, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Michael R. Brown wrote:
> 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 > http://www.fuguewriter.com ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
