"Where does it all lead? What will become of us? There were our young question, and young answers were revealed.
It leads to each other. We become ourselves.
For a time Robert [R. Mapplethorpe] protected me, then was dependent on me, an then possessive of me. His transformation was the rose of Genet, and he was pierced deeeply by his blooming. It too desired to feel more of the world. Yet sometimes that desire was nothing more than a wish to go backward where our mute light spread from hanging lanterns with mirrored panels. We had ventured out like Maeterlinck's children seeking the bluebird and were caught in the twisted briars of our new experiences."
PATTI SMITH
(Patti Smith, Just Kids, Bloomsbury Publishung, London, 2010)
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