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“She often met Mr. Barrett in the elevator on her way to work. He carried an alligator briefcase with a dull brass buckle; he was probably an attorney or a financier. Tilda looked forward to the meetings. He would be hurrying out too, but he always had a friendly word, asking how she was getting on in her new apartment or commenting on the smell of rain in the air. Tilda would give a soft, rapturous reply and smile her new smile. When Mr. Barrett smiled back his eyes were very blue, but Tilda noticed the fine lines that gathered beneath them, etched there by some unspoken melancholy. Melancholy about his wife, perhaps—Mrs. Barrett, who would have to be included in the poem.”

—Jane Avrich, from “La Belle Dame sans Merci”
Photography Credit Naho Kubota


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    —Jane Avrich, from “La Belle Dame sans Merci” Photography Credit Naho Kubota
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