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CALLASSA
THE CALLA BOOKS
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FANTASTICALLA
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CALLASSA CALLASSA
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“Look at me that way because I love you.”
“I love you, equally.”
“It’s my turn to say, ‘I know‘.”
“You Calla, make me smile and feel . . .”
“I couldn’t stop the bleeding . . . Perceval . . . I couldn’t stop it. I tried and tried, I used all manner of things but it just came and wouldn’t stop. I bled all over the house and . . . they thought it was amusing. I know their laughter. My bleeding. The insult. They came to see if I was dead and she went through my belongings. She has my mother’s wedding ring. I have to return. I have to. You must agree.”
“Calla. You are the ballerina who dances upon interstellar stage. To return would be to associate with them and by consequence, to tarnish your beauty.”
“You say the nicest things. I have to keep telling you because you do and I love you.”
“Calla.”
“Yes?”
“If you do what you intend it means I will have to return to the battlefield. I don’t wish to do that. Please. I would die a thousand deaths at the hands of a jealous man rather than suffer the indignity of trench warfare. You see, my Calla my beautiful treasure you will experience it too. Yes, the ballerina upon the battlefield, the red birds in the daylight sky.”
“And you . . . Will experience the poison dart? The laughter and the stealing? My blood?”
“Yes.”
“I’m sorry, so very sorry.”
“But, if it be your will, then it is mine also. Give me your hands. Yes, Calla give them to me. You are never alone. Remember this . . . Remember this . . . ”
“Perceval. Please do not go. Can’t we stay longer together? . . . Please . . . Please . . . Don’t go yet. Stay and drink tea.”
“We’ll meet each other again among those who are victims of their history but you and I, will be altogether different . . . Fare well, for now but hurry, Calla. Hurry. You must not tarry here, if this be your will. . . If this be your will. Calla, beautiful Calla.”
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My boy, my young wonder, who in many ways a male version of myself because that was what I wanted and wanted and wanted. For me to walk in the wisps of warm air made salty by the sea, to kick sand and pull him along as I tried to run. In laughter, he and I, the laughter that was the pulsating art, the visual noise of beauty itself, the poetry that is the magic of forever’s seeming smile. I wanted to feel the grasp of his fingers entwined in mine, for him to pull against me and for us both to fall. I wanted for him never to touch the ground, only to beat upon my wings. There my boy-wonder, beautiful ever.
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I felt that I was in the fast fading bronze of an evening Sun upon the sea. From a parapet, immersed in red flowers, he and I were together in a perfect love, my self-indulgence. I was covetous of him, because during the moments destined to live on and on, the divine into human life, the direct knowledge of the cosmos. He and I were to confront our observers as uncompromising participants in a greater purpose and in this the joy, the love and the bliss that is the gladness of the best.
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Nota Bene
This book is very severe, of the most beautiful and the most awful
While it tears mercilessly at the heart there it will remain as potent and so, as the very first moment the words were read
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… and this boy, this body far younger than my own, will become lost in passion and fulfilment never had.
The heaven of my making will lift the effigies of delusion and pain.
He will know only beauty at its most pure and wonder-filled height.
He will become my love, a boy in a dream, hanging on to each and every moment of his life, lest they pass and he be gone from me.
His every single living moment will soon be of me, in containment of the wonder being …
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Extract No I : Love in the Midst of the Red
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FANTASTICALLA
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Callassa Media Company Ltd. London
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United Kingdom
MMXXIV
Invicta Veritate
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