“One sees you sitting in the sun
Asleep;
With the sweeter gifts you had
And didn't keep,
One grieves that the altars of
Your vice lie deep.”

—  Djuna Barnes

Twilight of the Illicit
The Book of Repulsive Women (1915)

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American Modernist writer, poet and artist 1892–1982

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