Manchurian Books

You aren't going to alter that in
a thousand years or so.... Never should you have a mixed company,
never--except with only one man or only one woman. How would that be?...
"Or duets only?...
"How to manage it? Some rule of etiquette, perhaps."... He became
portentously grave.
Then his long hand went out in weird gestures.
"I seem to see--I seem to see--a sort of City of Women, Ponderevo.
Yes.... A walled enclosure--good stone-mason's work--a city wall, high
as the walls of Rome, going about a garden. Dozens of square miles of
garden--trees--fountains--arbours--lakes. Lawns on which the women play,
avenues in which they gossip, boats.... Women like that sort of thing.
Any woman who's been to a good eventful girls' school lives on the
memory of it for the rest of her life. It's one of the pathetic things
about women--the superiority of school and college--to anything they get
afterwards. And this city-garden of women will have beautiful places
for music, places for beautiful dresses, places for beautiful work.
Everything a woman can want.


Pages:
278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302