the ultimate stair
What to tell you about the book? The ultimate stair. My bed turned to a cloud.
Darling, I know everything already–from me to you–but it is still too early for a lot of things. Something in you must still get used to me.
Marina
Letters: Summer 1926, p 161
This passage –
Her facility with metaphor, throwing off a stair and a cloud in one casually sweeping gesture, I could read it a hundred times
Her intuition, that somehow she does know everything about him already, their souls recognize each other and she sees into him
And the suspense – too early for a lot of things? what things? what is to come? how will this unfold?
And the shock – there are foreign parts of her nature, some that he will have to get used to, although she already knows him, he doesn’t know her
And the power – she claims an advantage in this game in a way that’s charming and hard to dispute/detect, she claims a huge space to grow into, she invites anything unusual in her nature to come forward, without asking his permission but demanding his adjustment