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• p101: The narrator is lucid and eternally vigilant, yet along with the slightly paranoid fears about the beloved escaping from him via sleep into another world (‘I could kill you when I see you smiling in your sleep!’, ‘I will die, you will live, and that’s what awakens me!’, etc.), there is a strong yearning here for fusion: ‘You hold my body tight with your little strength./ Why are we not a plant with the same bark,/ The same heat, the same colour,/ And whose single flower would be our kiss.' p112-3: Plunged into complete emotional turmoil, Cocteau withdrew entirely from circulation, leaving Chanel to pay for the funeral and all remaining medical expenses. He would neither visit Radiguet’s dead body nor, on the day of the funeral, join the long procession in pouring rain to Père-Lachai... (查看原文)

  豆友77808036 1赞 2018-04-29 01:22:25

• Radiguet was forcing the very fruits of his success into his face. Yet in a familiar Cocteau paradox, the more Radiguet appeared dismissive, even contemptuous, towards him, the more Cocteau considered him utterly unique and pure. When in February 1923 the two travelled first to London then Harrow (to visit Reginald Bridgeman) and finally on to Oxford, they behaved more like master and slave: each found the other indispensable but also cloying, and each served to confirm the other’s loneliness. (查看原文)

  sohane 2023-01-27 02:53:38

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