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Wednesday, March 26, 2003

Last night I read the most amazing short story about love and sacrifice. If you didn't read it the first time, go back and read it now! It's on Austin's blog, posted back in february, I think. It starts, "One story I will try to reproduce. But, alas! It is like trying to reconstruct a forest out of broken branches and withered leaves..."

A few of my favorite passages:

"Nay, how many who love never come nearer than to behold each other as in a mirror; seem to know nad yet never know the inward life; never enter the other soul; and part at last, with but the vaguest notion of the universe on the borders of which they have been hovering for years."

"She--she alone and altogether--was his universe, his well of life, his incarnate good."

"He had not gone far, before the lady grew pale; and then, like a returning wave, the blood washed all its banks with its crimson tide, and she hid her face in her hands."

"With a wail of sorrow the lady rose to her feet. 'Ah! he loves me not; he loves me not even as I love him; and alas! I care more for his love than even for the freedom I ask.'"

"In a lofty, silent chamber, in another part of the city, lay a form more like marble than a living woman. The loveliness of death seemed frozen upon her face, for her lips were rigid, and her eyelids closed."

posted by lalbe # 12:19:00 p.m.

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