American drama -- 20th century; Experimental fiction, American; Prose poems
The younger one was certainly not an old one. She certainly was not such
a young one. In a way she was certainly a young one and certainly she
was such a one in not hearing some things and in telling some things and
certainly this did not astonish any one and was a natural thing and
certainly she was not then a young one.
She was an older one and she was certain of this thing and this was not
an astonishing thing to any one and not to her sister who was not
astonished at her being a younger one at her being an older one but was
certainly hoping to have had this thing happening that the younger one
would have been going on being a younger one and being an older one and
not be remembering anything of any such thing. Certainly the younger one
came to be one almost liking to be remembering something and then again
she certainly came to be quite tired of doing this thing of remembering
anything, of remembering being an older one and remembering being a
younger one and then she came to going on being one remembering being an
older one, she was then remembering being a younger one. Certainly she
came to be remembering pretty nearly everything and to going on in this
thing, keeping going on in this thing, steadily enough going on in this
thing.
They could both of them, they did, both of them, they would, either of
them, know that they were ones having been together and they were ones
having been alone. The older one certainly was one having been alone,
being alone, going to be alone and certainly this thing was something
that she was certain she was completely needing, was something she was
certain she was completely regretting, was something that certainly she
was one certain she could be feeling and certainly she was feeling this
thing and certainly she would be one having been feeling this thing and
certainly she could never be not feeling that this was something that
was a thing she was needing, she was regretting, in which she was
suffering, in which she was glorying, in which she was believing, in
which she was despairing, in which and by which she was really being
living.
The younger one was alone and not feeling about this thing that it was
an important thing, she was feeling about this thing that it was a thing
that she was needing to be changing. The older one was quite certain
that the younger would never be changing anything. The younger one was
not certain whether she would or whether she would not be changing
anything but this was not to be an important thing, the important thing
for her was to be one living where she wanted to be living and to be
working if she needed to be working. Certainly her sister was one to
whom any such thing was an important thing and so the younger one did
not tell her sister anything about this thing until she had changed
everything, that is gone to where she wanted to and working because she
had to.
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