What to tell you about the book? The ultimate stair. My bed turned to a cloud.<\/p>\n
Darling, I know everything<\/b> already–from me to you–but it is still too early for a lot of things. Something in you must still get used to me.<\/p>\n
Marina<\/i><\/p>\n
Letters: Summer 1926, p 161<\/i><\/p>\n
This passage – <\/p>\n
Her facility with metaphor, throwing off a stair and a cloud in one casually sweeping gesture, I could read it a hundred times <\/p>\n
Her intuition, that somehow she does know everything about him already, their souls recognize each other and she sees into him <\/p>\n
And the suspense – too early for a lot of things? what things? what is to come? how will this unfold? <\/p>\n
And the shock – there are foreign parts of her nature, some that he will have to get used to, although she already knows him, he doesn’t know her <\/p>\n
And the power – she claims an advantage in this game in a way that’s charming and hard to dispute\/detect, she claims a huge space to grow into, she invites anything unusual in her nature to come forward, without asking his permission but demanding his adjustment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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