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Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Think
Feeling
Calculations
Thinking
Face
Hammers
Faces
Upper
Tassels
Upon
Saving
Fluttered
Feelings
Block
Uncanny
Littles
Lips
Calculation
Little
Gave
Unbroken
Made
Hair
Hammer

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