IX The Cave of Swimmers
.. she holds her peace.
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t day two choices.
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Sopped reading and looked up. Out of te, I fell in love.
ords, Caravaggio. they have a power.
ons on doing ot, an uncle in some government office. All t at t time ty ion s, meeting at Groppi’s for ts, dancing into t. ty. t I o nohen.
Dinners, garden parties. Events I normally erested in but no to because ss until I see .
o you? it in t of tion for almost a year. I saer, s flooded back into t, noive, t nervous grip of an arm on a cliff, looks t erpreted.
I t time seldom in Cairo, t one montment of Egyptology on my oes Explorations dans le Desert Libyque, as to text as if t emerged from tain pen. And simul-taneously struggled rutautness bee plain of stomace my brief book, seventy pages long, succinct and to t, complete ravel. I o remove o dedicate to o o I imagined rose of a bed like a long bo it ed to a king. Believing sucronized by e and embarrassed she head.
I began to be doubly formal in eristic of my nature. As if a a previously revealed na-kedness. It is a European . It ural for me—ranslated rangely into my text of t—noo step int