Lisa Bielawa
Elegy-Portrait: in sorrow half and half defiant commissioned by Bruce Levingston in memory of Alexandra Montano
2008
Says the little Marquis: "You are very young, sir?" And von Langenau, in sorrow half and half defiant: "Eighteen." Then they are silent. And von Langenau grows sad. He thinks of a girl with whom he played. Wild games. And he would like to go home, for an instant only, only for so long as it takes to say the words: "Magdalena, my having always been LIKE THAT, forgive!" Like what? thinks the young man. And they are far away.
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Elegy-Portrait:
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in sorrow half and half defiant
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Lisa Bielawa
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