Sunday, 5 October 2008

Eduard Manet Bouquet Of Violets painting

Eduard Manet Bouquet Of Violets paintingEduard Manet Spring paintingEdward Hopper Carolina Morning painting
and a young woman lighting a candle at the Seven Dolours. Put a penny in the box, or not, just as you like; take your tract. There you’ve got it, in black and white. ‘All in one word, too, one little, flat, deadly word that covers a lifetime. ‘ “Living in sin”; not just doing wrong, as I did when I went to America; doing wrong, knowing it is wrong, stopping doing it, forgetting. That’s not what they mean. That’s not Bridey’s pennyworth. He means just what it says in black and white.
‘Living in sin, with sin, always the same, like an idiot child carefully nursed, guarded from the world. “Poor Julia,” they say, “she can’t go out. She’s got to take care of her sin. A pity it ever lived,”
they say, “but it’s so strong. Children like that always are.
Julia’s so good to her little, mad sin.” ‘
‘An hour ago,’ I thought, ‘under the sunset, she sat turning her ring

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