I was thinking how marked the influence of #JamesJoyce is in Nightwood and, being less acquainted with #djunabarnes 's life than I ought to be, wondered if there was any association. Turns out (I hear some expert shaking their head at the obviousness of my discovery) she met him in Paris and wrote an article in Vanity Fair about it in 1922. There are many delightful lines (no one writes delightfully anymore, not in this or that many hundred characters), but this one is especially darling:

"We have talked of women, about women he seems a bit disinterested. Were I vain I should say he is afraid of them, but I am certain he is only a little skeptical of their existence."

I can see Dr. O'Connor emerging almost whole-cloth out of this encounter, and it's the first time Djuna begins to emerge as a fully formed person to me... My previous acquaintance with her was as a shadow, her subjectivity so spouting from this single work that, as she says, I was a bit skeptical of her existence.

Literarischer #12Juni

„Einfach glücklich sein genügt nicht, du musst auch wissen wie.“

#DjunaBarnes Geburt 1892

Peggy Bacon, Portrait de Djuna Barnes (1934), crayon noir sur papier, 42.5cm × 35.2 cm, Washington, DC (USA), National Portrait Gallery - Smithsonian Institution.

source : https://www.si.edu/object/djuna-barnes%3Anpg_NPG.88.168

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