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| 6 | 149 | I had View more quotes about found">found them somehow in the piteous recesses of my needs, had drawn them forth as though from an ancient knowledge. |
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| 6 | 146 | Some of these movements I had been taught. |
| 6 | 147 | Others, in effect, were known to me from long ago. |
| 6 | 148 | I had, in secrecy, practiced them, before mirrors, when alone. |
| 6 | 149 | I had found them somehow in the piteous recesses of my needs, had drawn them forth as though from an ancient knowledge. |
| 6 | 150 | I had wondered how it was sometimes that I could have known such things. |
| 6 | 151 | Had I moved thusly long ago, in a former life, before a prince of some royal house on the Nile, before some caliph in his cool, white palace abutting the slow waters of the Tigris, in the house of some oligarch overlooking the Tiber? Or were these things locked in the very cells of my body, in the mysteries of genes and chromosomes, a part of my nature, selected for, over thousands of generations? Perhaps, thusly, such as I had, at times, writhed naked and piteous at the feet of some primitive hunter, before his fire, that he would not use the heavy stone in his hand, that I might be permitted to live. |
| 6 | 152 | How I would have been prepared to accept, and relish, eagerly, gratefully, the harsh terms which he might decree! And here, too, it seemed, in this place, new revelations had come to me of my nature. |