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The natural simplicity, the epic age of womenswriting, may have gone.
What does
one mean by the unity of the mind? She willnot need to limit herself any longer
to the respectable houses of theupper middle classes.
There is an attempt at it
in DIANA OF THECROSSWAYS.
London was wholly indifferent, itappeared, to
Shakespeares plays.
I had said thatI would wait until she faced herself with a
situation.
Shakespearesindecency uproots a thousand other things in ones mind,
and is far frombeing dull.
Think how much women have profited by the comments
ofJuvenal; by the criticism of Strindberg. Among these new novels one might
find an answer toseveral such questions.
They are now and then mothers and
daughters. It is when this fusion takesplace that the mind is fully fertilized
and uses all its faculties. Here camean errand-boy; here a woman with a dog on
a lead. Sheis like a person striking a match that will not light, I
thought.
But Shakespeare does it for pleasure; Mr A, as the nursessay, does it
on purpose. At this moment, as so often happens in London, there was a complete
lulland suspension of traffic. The obviousreason would be that it is natural
for the sexes to co-operate.
Perhaps the androgynous mind is less apt to make
thesedistinctions than the single-sexed mind.
What does one mean by the unity
of the mind?
It took place on the beach under the sun.
Nobody, it seemed,was
reading ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.
Cleopatras only feeling about Octavia is one of
jealousy.
That is a sight that has never been seen since theworld began, I
exclaimed.
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