“Her nakedness yielded to him, radiant, warm, odorous snd lavishlimbed, enfolded him like a shining cloud, enfolded him like water with a liquid life: and like a cloud of vapour or like water circumfluent in space the liquid letters of speech, symbols of the element of mystery, flowed forth over his brain.”
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A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man
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