Capitolo 93
nature nobler--you/he/she was seen in his/her simplicity. It is so that the
women of his/her earth prepare him to the ceremony of sometimes
their baptism in a new life.
You had I handed a simple nightgown and his/her face and he/she takes on the shoulders increase
out of this the austerity of marble had--not exempted by downfall, but
exempted by smaller mutation. You looked down once at his/her wrists and
I enliven a few instinctive and done with his/her fingers as whether to hide them
under the sleeves.
Then she drew near to the bed. As she did so, she turned again to half road and
quickly stretched his/her arm toward the wall as whether to run away to him.
Then she drew more neighbor, a compassionate and new fear of him in his/her eyes--the glance
of the rejected one.
Then she sustained an instant and then she reclined on the edge of the bed,
remaining on an elbow and looking down at him.
For years her first words to him in this day had been the world it is best
greeting:
"A Merry Christmas!"
You tried to summon the words to his/her lips and to have them hello.
To the pressure of his/her body on the bed he opened his/her eyes and
it immediately looked at to see what was the whole truth: as she was gone out
of him all, what their life had from now on now to be of that that their future
it would be worth. But to her sight so it changed--anything so gone
out of her forever--with a to whine rapid he reached his/her arm for her. You
fought for getting away from him; but him, leaving without breath his/her shelteringly of the arm
on the youth-naked head, it drew down his/her closing of face against his
face. You taken to one of the braids of his/her hair and it threw him/it through
his/her eyes, and then convulsive and silent hiccups rented and they lacerated her/it, it lacerated her/it.
The stream of his/her torn wounds that it rain down in his/her torn wounds.
Torn wounds not for the guilts of the Life but for the Life when there am anybody
guilts. They closed in each other arm--trying to save each other on
Enormous nature solitary, launching, uncaring sea.