Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Commonplace Book

'Alone in her bed she lay, and between waking and sleeping thought of Caesar. There had been little enjoyment is his arms, save during those days on the Nile; and yet she longed for him, no one else. Slowly the lotus of sleep closed petals about her, closed on her limbs the flower-cosmetics of her fine breeding, her glistening will. Is it the man, or the power in the man? But how separate them?

The lotus-body opened petals, restlessly dreaming the coming of Caesar.'

from Caesar is Dead by Jack Lindsay (First Part, Chapter I)

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