julia maria’s Reviews > A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney > Status Update

Conventional grammar is often replaced with dashes and ellipses, for it is especially the latter, those three little clitoral dots, that typically omit the unspoken/unspeakable words of women's desire. The ellipsis, favored by Barney, Vivien, and Woolf, among others, was an often-used subversive tool of lesbian writers at the turn of the century, (...)