Donna Tartt Quote
I don't know where to begin. He paused, and took a drink. Do you remember last fall, in Julian's class, when we studied what Plato calls telestic madness? Bakcheia? Dionysiac frenzy? Yes,I said rather impatiently. It was just like Henry to bring up something like this right now. Well, we decided to try to have one. For a moment I thought I hadn't understood him. What? I said? I said we decided to try to have a bacchanal.
Donna Tartt
I don't know where to begin. He paused, and took a drink. Do you remember last fall, in Julian's class, when we studied what Plato calls telestic madness? Bakcheia? Dionysiac frenzy? Yes,I said rather impatiently. It was just like Henry to bring up something like this right now. Well, we decided to try to have one. For a moment I thought I hadn't understood him. What? I said? I said we decided to try to have a bacchanal.
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