Olga Spessivtseva and Serge Lifar in La Chatte“I have been to the Russian ballet,” Alabama tried to
Olga Spessivtseva and Serge Lifar in La Chatte“I have been to the Russian ballet,” Alabama tried to explain herself, “and it seemed to me—Oh, I don’t know! As if it held all the things I’ve always tried to find in everything else.”“What have you seen?”“La Chatte, Madame, I must do that some day!” Alabama replied impulsively.A faint flicker of intrigued interest moved the black eyes recessionally. Then the personality withdrew from the face. Looking into her eyes was like walking through a long stone tunnel with a grey light shining at the other end, sloshing blindly through dank dripping earth over a moist curving bottom.“You are too old. It is a beautiful ballet. Why have you come to me so late?”“I didn’t know before. I was too busy living.”“And now you have done all your living?”“Enough to be fed up,” laughed Alabama.Zelda Fitzgerald, Save me the Waltz -- source link
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