Ceaseless wound glove“Bricklin? I stole nothing,” Duncan replied, casting a wary glance toward the street. I grew bored, with that squalid boredom that idleness and riches bring about. For ten years, I did everything that he wanted. A woman does not humiliate herself by making concessions. There was a small stack of magazines under the bed. Style and fashion publications that showed off beautiful women with handsome men, along with the chic clothes and gorgeous architecture. Misia was watching. She immediately sent a telegram to Stravinsky, in Spain:“Coco is amidinette who prefers grand-dukes to artists.” ‘Do you ever feel he’s in the back seat?’ She reaches for a key on a shelf that’s the oldest piece in the house, embossed by my great-grandfather Anton?us, a craftsman and powerful poet. The shelf also holds a ceramic curlew, a row of rock crystals and zeolites, and a stuffed plover with a damaged wing. That plover won’t be going far this autumn. I realize that I’ve been jabbering away, and say that hopefully he doesn’t have too many frozen items in his cart. “I suggested bandages,” Conawago explained with a peeved look at Woolford, “but Patrick thought powder would do. Not enough apparently.” He bowed to Alice. “Forgive us. Conawago of the Nipmuc tribe, though I put on Socrates Moon when I don my waistcoat.” He had no reply. I grew bored, with that squalid boredom that idleness and riches bring about. For ten years, I did everything that he wanted. A woman does not humiliate herself by making concessions. On the wall hung a black, polished, framed board with white, numbered bell-buttons. Under each was a card bearing the name of the respective occupant. Why is it necessary to have red lights so early on a Sunday morning? whines Hei?ur as she stops at the last traffic light in town. There’s no one around. It was very hard. There’s certainly an abundance of fragrant ointments here — Heavenly Violet’s a corny name, completely unsuitable in the shadowy luxury of a bathroom off the beaten path, but the smell of the ointment isn’t in harmony with its name. It’s terribly seductive, and I take no fewer than five minutes to smear it on, before putting on the biggest and reddest frott? bathrobe that I’ve ever seen, without a clue as to what sort of chieftain it’s intended for, because everyone in Hei?ur’s family is medium-sized. Around my head I wrap a matching towel, creating an enormous red turban, and goout. These people will just have to deal with it. Secret love. That’s something for me, maybe for everyone. It costs nothing to desire in silence and stick to my own thoughts about things. There’s something elegant about desiring what can’t be had. Who was it that said he wished none such ill that his wishes were fulfilled? Could it be that the fulfillment of wishes in affairs of the heart is the slyest punishment meted out by the gods? How might it be to have desired a person for years, waited for him, fought for him, and in the end be granted the wish? To continue to love and be always in the red, because the other loves less. To discover latent defects, unworthiness. Not to be able to stop loving, not to be allowed to stop — because then life’s purpose would disappear.. |