Great Expectations by Kathy Acker

Author:Kathy Acker
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241352151
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2018-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

The First Days of Romance

My father had left me all his possessions and I was, by the world’s accounting, a well-to-do young woman. I owned a large house in Seattle. The rest of the money, since it was tied up in stocks and bonds and lawyers’ incomprehensible papers, only meant that I was no longer untouchable. I knew most people wanted money or fame desperately just in order to survive. I knew I was no longer a person to a man, but an object, a full purse. I needed someone to love me so I could figure out reality.

The rest of my life was programmed for me: since I had inherited a house in Seattle, I would go to Seattle. Clifford, my father’s best friend, was going to accompany me. I would never do what I wanted to do. My aunts Martha and Mabel would make sure that my money wouldn’t allow me to act unreasonably and pleasurably. I was to grow accustomed to that reality.

My father died in the middle of January. It is now almost two years later. I can’t describe Sutton Place—where Ashington House lay—for I miss it so deeply.

St. Agnes’ Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was!

The owl for all his feathers, was a-cold;

The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass,

And silent was the flock in woolly fold;

Numb were the beadman’s fingers, while he told

His rosary, and while his frosted breath,

Like pious incense from a censer old,

Seemed taking flight for heaven, with out a death,

Past the sweet Virgin’s picture, while his prayer he saith.

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