This cre@ture who I have just married and to whom I have given my name, is she mine?
Does she really belong to me in the literal sense of the word? Can she be considered my property? I have looked upon her all day... She's terrifyingly lovely.
I am not speaking of that beauty which one normally attributes to the body and the spirit, but something within which keeps revealing itself from its proper substance.
I know Clara physically. She was a dancer. If one must, a strip-teaser dancing in the raw. Every night I went to see her and study her. I wanted her and I wondered whether I was going to have her………