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    The Damsel and the Sage A Woman's Whimsies
    The Damsel and the Sage A Woman's Whimsies
    The Damsel and the Sage A Woman's Whimsies
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    The Damsel and the Sage A Woman's Whimsies

    By Elinor Glyn

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Damsel and the Sage A Woman's Whimsies
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    Elinor Glyn

    Elinor Glyn was a British writer best known for pioneering mass-market women’s erotic fiction and popularizing the concept of the “It Girl,” which had a profound influence on 20th century popular culture and the careers of Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow. In addition to her work as a scriptwriter for silent movies, Glyn was one of the earliest female directors. Elinor Glyn’s elder sister was fashion designer Lady Duff-Gordon, who survived the tragic sinking of the Titanic. Over the duration of her career Glyn penned more than 40 works including such titles as Three Weeks, Beyond the Rocks, and Love’s Blindness. Elinor Glyn died in 1943.

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      The Damsel and the Sage A Woman's Whimsies - Elinor Glyn

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      Title: The Damsel and the Sage

      A Woman's Whimsies

      Author: Elinor Glyn

      Release Date: March 1, 2007 [EBook #20718]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DAMSEL AND THE SAGE ***

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      THE DAMSEL and THE SAGE

      THE DAMSEL

      and

      THE SAGE

      A WOMAN'S WHIMSIES

      By ELINOR GLYN

      HARPER &

      BROTHERS

      PUBLISHERS

      NEW YORK

      & LONDON

      MDCCCCIII

      Copyright, 1903, by Elinor Glyn.

      All rights reserved.

      Published October, 1903.

      To

      THE SUN'S RAYS

      A tree stood alone surrounded by high and low hills. It could be observed from all sides, and it appeared different from each elevation.

      The tree was the same, only the point of view differed.

      Everything depends upon the point of view.

      And as to the meaning, it's what you please.

      "C. S. C."

      THE DAMSEL AND THE SAGE

      nd the Damsel said to the Sage:

      Now, what is life? And why does the fruit taste bitter in the mouth?

      And the Sage answered, as he stepped from his cave:

      My child, there was once a man who had two ears like other people. They were naturally necessary for his enjoyment of the day. But one of these ears offended his head. It behaved with stupidity, thinking thereby to enhance its value to him—it heard too much. Oh, it conducted itself with a gross stupidity. 'Out upon you,' cried the man; 'since you have overstepped the limit of the functions of an ear, I shall cut you from my head!' And so, without hesitation, he took a sword and accomplished the deed. The poor ear then lay upon the ground bleeding, and the man went about with a mutilated head.

      And what was the good of all that? said the Damsel.

      There was no good in it, replied the Sage. But he was a man, and he had punished the too-fond-and-foolish ear—also he hoped a new and more suitable one would grow in its place. 'Change,' he said, 'was a thing to be welcomed.'

      And tell me, Sage, what became of the ear? asked the Damsel.

      The ear fared better. Another man of greater shrewdness came along, and, although he had two ears of his own, he said, 'A third will not come amiss,' and he picked up the ear and heard with three ears instead of two. So he became knowing and clever because of the information he acquired in this way. The grafted ear grew and flourished, and, in spite of its remaining abnormal, it obtained a certain enjoyment out of existence.

      "But who really benefited by all this?" inquired the Damsel.

      No one, said the Sage; "the

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