:30:01
It is best so.
:30:03
Not like a princess in a thicket.
More like a spider in her web.
:30:07
"Inclined to snap at visitors
or trespassers...
:30:11
...not perceiving the distinction until
too late. Thus it is unwise to call."
:30:17
I know you live very quietly
but I could be very quiet.
:30:21
I only want to discuss Dante.
Shakespeare.
:30:24
Wordsworth. Coleridge. Goethe.
:30:27
Not forgetting, of course, Christabel
LaMotte and the ambitious fairy project.
:30:48
Sir, things flicker and shift
all spangle and sparkle and flashes.
:30:55
I have sat all this long evening by my
fireside, turning towards a caving in...
:31:01
... the crumbling of the consumed coals
to where I am leading myself...
:31:06
... to lifeless dust, sir.
:31:09
My dear friend, for I may
call myself a friend, may I not?
:31:16
I speak to you as I would to any person
who possesses my true thoughts...
:31:21
... my thoughts have spent more time in
your company than anyone else's lately.
:31:27
Where my thoughts are,
there am I in truth.
:31:34
"My dear friend,
it has been borne in upon me...
:31:37
...that there are dangers
in our continued conversation."
:31:41
The world would not approve...
:31:43
... of letters between a woman living in
shared solitude as I do, and a man.
:31:49
Even if that man were a great poet.
:31:53
And if one is to live in this way...
:31:55
... it's imperative to appear respectable
in the eyes of that world and your wife.