Artemis: .. ".. Henry James.. I read Henry James.. but could I have written Henry James.. I wish I could have.. I wish I could have.. I have thoughts about his tour-de-force female character portrait of the dutiful daughter Maggie Verver in "The Golden Bowl".. of the loving daughter Maggie Verver.. so loving to her father.. for her father gave her art.. and Maggie Verver always remembered that her father gave her art... and Maggie Verver was thought by her father to resemble both a nun and a nympth... perhaps.. heh.. a mermaid hybrid of the two... her father thought of her daughter Maggie in such odd connections.. and Maggie Verver was so doting on the themes of her father's happiness.. that she arranged a wife for her father.. a young female contemporary friend of Maggie's would now be her father's wife.. she was quite the little match-maker Maggie Verver was.. the young, nubile, silly-gamely young woman of verve was Maggie Verver... and she was so concerned about being nice.. although Maggie Verver was finally rude at one time to a maid who Maggie had decided she found.. simply not good at her job.. their was a word Maggie used to describe the maid not being good at her job.. unconscionable?.. appalling?.. incompetent?.. a word slightly less harsh.. not much less harsh but slightly.. it is the first false note this disapproval of her maid's competence in the grace and youth of Maggie's personality.. kind of like something atonal in her personality.. something out of Alban Berg enters Maggie Verver's personality with her disapproval of the maid.. sorry.. sortof harping on it because it actually bothered me a lot.. a spent the whole novel thinking of Maggie Verver as a lovely person... their is an Italian antique dealer who sells her the Golden Bowl of the title, an antique, and Maggie Verver is so kind to this antique dealer.. she feels he was very honest.. very concerned about not overcharging her because he visited her at her home afterwards on the eventuality that he had.. Maggie Verver is described as being quite the nervous hummingbird in "The Golden Bowl"... having a flitting butterfly of a personality.. being somehow too busy to be decorous, to have a decorous personality in the modest aristocracy environs she inhabits.. somehow like Maggie Verver.. does not have the elegant sinuosity of a physical personality, the physical grace or carriage, the balletic gesture and posture .. like she.. Maggie Verver .. is busy and awkward and nervous.. and that's her personality.. I think of the character of Kate Croy in Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove".. who is so fierce in her desire to join the .. the gentry?... the female gentry?.. is their a female gentry in Victorian London?... I somehow got the idea that Kate Croy did not have designs on joining the aristocracy.. she was almost a woman who wants to join the freemasons as a female member.. she wants to be an INSIDER in London society... a woman of the.. gentry?.. Kate Croy?... a woman who appreciates the extra lace on her dress while yet understanding how much this is part of her instinct, perhaps genetic, for superficiality.. like Kate Croy has an ironic concept of her own superficiality in her need to wear ornate, elaborate, semi-expensive gowns or dresses.. and how inveterately important this is for her own Kate Croy's peace of mind.. how all this is the world to her... this is Kate Croy.. the seeker of the labyrinth of Victoriana.. this is what I've so far studied... in my readings of the novels the late work of Henry James.. I .. am .. the goddess.. Artemis... of the forest urban wilderness of Edwardian and Victorian London... I am Artemis.. both and Edwardian and a Victorian woman-goddess..."..
.. a long, long monologue for winona ryder for her portrayal of the greek goddess Artemis in Patty Jenkins's "Wonder Woman".. this monologue for winona ryder as artemis was written by Geoff Johns...
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