Monday, November 3, 2008

Amedeo Modigliani Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne painting

Amedeo Modigliani Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne paintingAmedeo Modigliani Nude Sdraiato paintingAmedeo Modigliani Nu couche de dos painting
phantom imps, how to explain; best thing was to stay home, not go out for so much as to post a letter, stay in, lock the door, say your prayers, and the goblins would (maybe) stay away. -- Reasons for defeat? Baba, who could count them? Not only was she a shopkeeper's wife and a kitchen slave, but even her own people could not be relied on; -- there were men running off with some haramzadi female, and girls killed for dowry (some bout her complaints, this is how it was for women like her, so now she was no longer just one, just herself, just Hind wife of teacher Sufyan; she had sunk into the anonymity, the characterless plurality, of being merely one-of-the-women--like-her. This was history's lessonthings could be brought through the foreign customs without duty); -- and worst of all, the poison of this devil-island had infected her baby girls, who were growing up refusing to speak their mothertongue, even though they understood every word, they did it just to hurt; and why else had Mishal cut off all her hair and put rainbows into it; and every day it was fight, quarrel, disobey, -- and worst of all, there was not one new thing a: nothing for women-like-her to do but suffer, remember,

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