[MD] MOQ and CTMU

[Michael R. Brown]

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.

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MRB
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