[MARY] We went out to see Mrs Gardner today. She will soon die, and she must know it, but she is unchanged in her egotism, her malice, her attachment to detail, to nonsensical things A YOUNGER ISABELLA’S BRAVADO WAS CHARMING NOW I FIND HER PATHETIC, UGLY, ALARMING DETERMINED THAT NO ONE SHOULD SEE HER TREASURES SHE KEEPS HER JUNK SHOP CLOSED FOR HER ASININE PLEASURES [REMBRANDT] From Henry James: [DEGAS] She had an immense curiosity about life and was constantly staring and wondering. Her imagination was ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window [DEGAS] OF COURSE, THE MADAM COULD BE SELF RIGHTEOUS THE LOOK ON HER FACE, IF FOUND WRONG, WAS JUST PRICELESS [BB] DEAREST ISABELLA, I DREAM OF YOU AND BOSTON SPARE A THOUGHT FOR OLD FRIENDS, I HOPE YOU’VE NOT FORGOTTEN [REMBRANDT] SEE A DUSTY GEM, ONCE A SOCIALITE HER FADING BARK IS NO MATCH FOR HER BITE LIVES FOR SPECTACLE, BUT SHE REMAINS A MYSTERY NOW LOSING SPEED BUT CLINGING TO THE RAFT OF HISTORY [DEGAS/VERMEER] HERE AS SHE OUTLIVES HER SCORES OF YOUNG MEN [DEGAS/MANET/VERMEER] WATCH THE TIDES TURN AGAINST ISABELLA AGAIN [REMBRANDT] THE END OF AN ERA [ARTISTS] ISABELLA ISABELLA [ISABELLA] They have no right to say such things about me [MANET] None of us have any input in how we’re remembered [VERMEER] Or if we’re remembered at all [MANET] That’s the price we pay for being extraordinary [ISABELLA] WHAT USE FOR ME IS MEMORY WITHOUT MY SAY IN IT LEGACY IS MERELY STORY, LET ME SPIN IT [REMBRANDT] PAINTINGS, LETTERS, THOSE LIVE ON FOREVER THE TREAD WE LEAVE BEHIND FADES - FAR LESS PRESSURE [ISABELLA] LET MY LETTERS BLAZE, LIGHTING UP THE NIGHT LEAVE THE FUTURE WANTING FOR THE WORDS I WRITE WE HAD OUR FUN, BUT TELL MY BOYS IT’S OVER SET MY STORY STRAIGHT BEFORE I LIE IN CLOVER THE MUSEUM WON’T LEAD ME ASTRAY RESISTING THE URGE OF HISTORY’S DECAY TOME TURNED NOVELLA [ARTISTS] ISABELLA ISABELLA
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