 Wysłany: Wto 14:48, 22 Lut 2011 Temat postu: On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Published ccaafaqu |
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MCMX _The "Epilogue of the Dreaming Women" is reprinted by permission of the "English Review."_ PREFACE There are two great traditions of womanhood. One presents the Madonna brooding over the mystery of motherhood; the othermore confusedlytells of the acolytethe priestessthe clairvoyante of the unknown gods. This latter exists complete in herselfa personality as definite and as significant as a symbol. She is behind all the processes of artthough she rarely becomes a conscious artistexcept in delicate and impassioned modes of living. Indeedmatters are cruelly complicated for her if the entanglements of destiny drag her forward into the deliberate aesthetic effort. Strangewistfulbitter and s skechers clearanceweetshe troubles and quickens the soul of manas earthly or as heavenly lover redeeming him from the spiritual sloth which is more to be dreaded than any kind of pain. 1 The second tradition of womanhood does not perish; butin these present confusions of changewomen of the more emotional and imaginative type are less potent than they have been and will be again. They appear equally inimical and heretical to the opposing camps of hausfrau and of suffragist. Their intellectual forces liberated and |
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