The Alexandria Quartet – Justine – Balthazar – Mountolive – Clea

The tragic seed from which her thoughts and actions grew was the seed of a pessimistic gnosticism.

This intimacy should go no further, for we have already exhausted all its possibilities in our respective imaginations: and what we shall end by discovering, behind the darkly woven colours of sensuality, will be a friendship so profound that we shall become bondsmen forever.’ It was, if you like, the flirtation of minds prematurely exhausted by experience which seemed so much more dangerous than a love founded in sexual attraction.

It was, if you like, the flirtation of minds prematurely exhausted by expe

This intimacy should go no further, for we have already exhausted all its possibilities in our respective imaginations: and what we shall end by discovering, behind the darkly woven colours of sensuality, will be a friendship so profound that we shall become bondsmen forever.’ It was, if you like, the flirtation of minds prematurely exhausted by expe

I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.