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Ophelia’s Lie
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248 Ophelia’s Lie Not that her innocence and age were an excuse . . . After all, the girl could hold her own in argument, dispute her brother’s platitudes and sing Elizabethan songs while strumming on a lute. And she was beautiful as girls in adolescence are before they realize how beautiful they are. What ended everything was when she let herself be used and then denied it to his face. He never was the same . . . It took so little to destroy so much the way a microscopic but malignant speck can wreck a body, or a misprint maim a poem or a name. ...