[MD] MOQ and CTMU

[MarshaV]

MRB,

Ah yes, I can imagine the egotism of a nineteen-year-old girl could be an excitement.  Anything more?  
 
 
Marsha 
 
 
 
 
On Jul 26, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Michael R. Brown wrote:

> 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
> http://www.fuguewriter.com 



 
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