Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Her Eminence Magnifique Scoundrel!

                                                    
Le Brigand...                                                                     


Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes, steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end, as I ended, in falling in love with her....

                                                         — Henry James, in a letter to his father

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