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How to act, that was the question? Whither to go, how to
become oneself? One was not oneself, one was merely a
half-stated question How to become oneself, how to know the
question and the answer of oneself, when one wasabout like the winds of
heaven, undefined, unstated
She turned to the visions, which had spoken far-off words
that ran along the blood like ripples of an unseen wind, she
heard the words again, she denied the vision, for she must be a
weekday person, to whom visions were not true, and she de of the words
There ords spoken by the vision: and words , since words eekday stuff Let them
speak now: let them bespeak themselves in weekday terms The
vision should translate itself into weekday terive to the poor," she heard on
Sunday h for Monday
to
school, she took the saying with her
"Sell all thou hast, and give to the poor"
Did she want to do that? Did she want to sell her
pearl-backed brush and mirror, her silver candlestick, her
pendant, her lovely little necklace, and go dressed in drab like
the Wherrys: the unlovely uncombed Wherrys, ere the "poor"
to her? She did not
She walked this Monday e of ht And she didn't want to do
what the gospels said She didn't want to be poor--really