Bedouins: Mary Garden, Debussy, Chopin or the Circus, Botticelli, Poe, Brahmsody, Anatole France, Mirbeau, Caruso on Wheels, Calico Cats, the Artistic ... a Masque of Music, and the Vision M

Excerpt from Bedouins: Mary Garden, Debussy, Chopin or the Circus, Botticelli, Poe, Brahmsody, Anatole France, Mirbeau, Caruso on Wheels, Calico Cats, the Artistic Temperament; Idols and Ambergris; With the Supreme Sin, Grindstones, a Masque of Music, and the Vision Malefic

"Je suis belle, ò mortels! comme un reve de pierre,
Et mon sein, où chacun s'est meurtri tour a tour,
Est fait pour inspirer au poete un amour
Eternel et meut, ainsi, que la matiere." - Charles Baudelaire.

That little girl down Boston way, who had mastered William James and Boris Sidis before she was in her teens, behaved badly one after noon. Possibly it was the sultry weather, or growing pains - in the psychic sphere, of course - or, perhaps, it may have been due to the re flexes from prolonged attention to the Freudian psycho-analysis and the significance of Twilight Sleep; but whatever the cause, that precocious child flew off her serene handle and literally "sassed" the entire household. The tantrum over - she afterward described it as a uric-acid storm - and order reigning once more in Bach Bay, she was severely interrogated by her male parent as to the whys and wherefores of her singular deviation from accustomed glacial intellectual objectivity.

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