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a few lines

January 2015

the supreme disciplines of
a tangle of vague outlines
planted thick with ugliness and
on the lines of the prevailing fashion

some liveliness of emotion
and loneliness of pride

to read between the lines was easier than to follow the text
six lines
a few lines

a few (most) lines from first volume, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
at gutenberg.org
 

8 January 2015

tags:
form; lines; prevailing modes; scribble; tangles
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)