{Undine (2) [continued]}[15th August 1988]

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Yesterday *she knelt on her heels, with knees together and hands on her lap; so at times today, but also at times with knees separated and hands in her lap: and occasionally, I think, sitting rather than kneeling, with lower legs crossed quite close in front of her and hands resting just in front of the crossing of the legs. The first posture is associated more often with the bowed head, the last with the direct and continuing regard of those intensely blue eyes.** The progression of postures, from first to third, is also associated with a developing maturity: the first posture might be of a child, a young girl, say ten years of age in bodily terms; the third posture might be a girl, a young woman, say sixteen to twenty years of age, or even more; but it is hard to be certain.

*[See last previous entry]

**cf [[Redbook5:336-341][19880904:2022#]{Emptiness of the Spirit}[4th September 1988]] 339 [ – renumbered as 341 (ref unclear but possibly to Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘Merrow Down’, which is reproduced on 340-341 (as renumbered from 338-339), 9^th verse]

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