Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes

Author:Djuna Barnes [Barnes, Djuna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1992-04-14T22:00:00+00:00

THIS be a Love Letter for a Present, and when she is Catched, what shall I do with her? God knows! For ’tis safe to say I do not, and what we know not, is our only proof of Him!

My Love she is an Old Girl, out of Fashion, Bugles at the Bosom, and theredown a much Thumbed Mystery and a Maze. She doth jangle with last Year’s attentions, she is melted with Death’s Fire! Then what shall I for her that hath never been accomplished? It is a very Parcel of Perplexities! Shall one stumble on a Nuance that twenty Centuries have not pounced upon, yea worried and made a Kill of? Hath not her Hair of old been braided with the Stàrs? Her shin half-circled by the Moon. Hath she not been turned all ways that the Sands of her Desire know all Runnings? Who can make a New Path where there be no Wilderness? In the Salt Earth lie Parcels of lost Perfection—surely I shall not loos en her Straps a New Way, Love hath been too long a Time! Will she unpack her Panels for such a Stale Receipt, pour out her Treasures for a coin worn thin? Yet to renounce her were a thing as old ; and saying “Go!” but shuts the Door that hath banged a million Years!

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