Monday, May 30, 2005
Dance to the Piper by Agnes de Mille: A-1 Women's Discount Bookstore
One of my favorite paragraphs is from this book: Dance to the Piper by Agnes de Mille: A-1 Women's Discount Bookstore.
Anna Pavlova! My life stops as I write that name. Across the daily preoccupation of lessons, lunch boxes, tooth brushings and quarrelings with Margaret flashed this bright, unworldly experience and burned in a single afternoon a path over which I could never retrace my steps. I had witnessed the power of beauty, and in some chamber of my heart I lost forever my irresponsibility. I was as clearly marked as though she had looked me in the face and called my name." (opening, Chapter 6) c. 1951, 1952 Agnes de Mille
Anna Pavlova! My life stops as I write that name. Across the daily preoccupation of lessons, lunch boxes, tooth brushings and quarrelings with Margaret flashed this bright, unworldly experience and burned in a single afternoon a path over which I could never retrace my steps. I had witnessed the power of beauty, and in some chamber of my heart I lost forever my irresponsibility. I was as clearly marked as though she had looked me in the face and called my name." (opening, Chapter 6) c. 1951, 1952 Agnes de Mille
