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The Open Mind
of Lafcadio and James Daniel HEARN
Mother's Only Sons: Estranged Brothers
“And you do not remember that dark and beautiful face, with large brown eyes like a wild deer’s, that used to bend above your cradle?”
“We were all very dark as children, very passionate, very odd-looking, and wore gold rings in our ears. Have you not got the marks yet?”
> Lafcadio’s first correspondence with his brother James Daniel. About 1890.
Hearn brothers' wandering worlds
“For I thought of you always as my double: a highly complex nervous organization, with her vital force.”
“When I saw your photograph, I felt all my blood stir, and I thought, ‘Here is this unknown being in whom the soul of my mother lives, who must have known the same strange impulses, the same longings, the same resolves, as I!
>Lafcadio addressing his brother James Daniel
