Friday, January 9, 2015

all or nothing, less is more

Catherine Breillat's room

"'If there were more there would be too many to convey the impression in which half the beauty resides -- the impression somehow of something deemed and missed, something reduced, relinquished, resigned: the poetry, as it were, of something sensibly gone.' Fleda ingeniously and triumphantly worked it out."


The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James