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I, Mary MacLane

Name: I, Mary MacLane
Author: Mary MacLane

Mary MacLane

Read by Lynne T · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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A crucible of my own making (5:34)
Half inevitably, half by choice (4:44)
A twisted moral (2:58)
Everyday and to-morrow (14:35)
A mathematic dead-wall (1:48)
My neat blue chair (4:39)
A lost person (1:40)
A thin damnedness (7:07)
A prison of self (2:09)
A winding sheet (17:34)
The Dover road (3:29)
The harp of worn strings (3:15)
A strongly-windy Saturday (0:46)
A someway separate individual (3:30)
Sincerity and despair (4:53)
It’s not death (0:40)
A human prerogative (3:11)
The merciless beauty (6:28)
My shoes (4:06)
An eerie quality (1:08)
A helliad (3:48)
Swift go my days (2:36)
By the blood of dead Americans (1:51)
To express me (6:26)
Bastard lacy valentines (13:16)
Sweet fine sweatings of blood (9:55)
Instinct—a ‘first law’ (5:31)
Loose twos (1:31)
Knitting or plaiting straw (8:17)
A life-long lonely word (1:14)
Their voices (8:10)
My damns (5:03)
To God, care of the whistling winds (13:58)
A working diaphragm (8:44)
Lot’s wife (11:40)
My echoing footsteps (11:01)
A comfortably vicious person (2:08)
In my black dress and my still room (7:56)
Their little shoes (5:54)
The sleep of the dead (3:46)
Stickily mad (3:19)
God compensates me (8:13)
The strange braveness (1:38)
Just beneath my skin (3:00)
God’s kindly caprice (14:20)
A fascinating creature (6:23)
No resonance (1:26)
Black-browed Wednesdays (13:14)
The conscious analyst (4:09)
Eye when I mean tooth (1:53)
A wild mare (3:08)
The mist (2:14)
A white liner (16:01)
Beneficent bedlam (0:59)
A deathly pathos (2:27)
The necklace (5:48)
Slyly garbling and cross-purposing (22:24)
Not quite voilà-tout (13:57)
A damned spider (5:47)
To wander and hang and float about (4:12)
A thousand kisses (6:44)
A fluttering-moth wish (4:15)
Twenty inches of ajarness (7:36)
A profoundly delicious idea (2:40)
A mountebank’s cloak (6:01)
A familiar sharp twist (6:52)
A dark bright fierce fire (5:26)
Late afternoon (3:39)
An ancient witch-light (7:50)
The gray-purple (11:05)
The subdivided cell (1:51)
Food and fire (12:43)
The edge of mist-and-silver (8:38)
A right shape and size (6:52)
Ice-water, corrosive acid and human breath (8:56)
Rhythm (5:12)
A prayer-feeling (3:37)