It was because seeing someone in actuality who had such a high immediate worth meant you had to decide whether such personal distinction has a right to exist or if she belonged to the state and ought to be shadowed in, reduced in scale, made lesser, laughed at.Īlso, it was the case that you had to be rich and famous to set your hands on her she could not fail to be a trophy, and the question was whether the trophy had to be awarded on economic and political grounds or whether chance could enter in. To see her in sunlight was to see Marxism die. She was a somewhat scrawny, tuliplike girl of middling height. Truly, people on first meeting her often involuntarily lifted their arms as if about to fend off the brightness of the apparition. Her looks were like a force that struck you.
