# I, Mary MacLane

I, MARY MacLANE
A Diary of Human Days
By
MARY MacLANE
Author of "The Story of Mary MacLane"
New York Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers
To M— T—
these Live Fruits from the Withered Garden
* Chapter 1: A Crucible of My Own Making
* Chapter 2: Half Inevitably
* Chapter 3: A Twisted Moral
* Chapter 4: Everyday and To-morrow
* Chapter 5: A Mathematic Dead-wall
* Chapter 6: My Neat Blue Chair
* Chapter 7: A Lost Person
* Chapter 8: A Thin Damnedness
* Chapter 9: A Prison of Self
* Chapter 10: A Winding Sheet
* Chapter 11: The Dover Road
* Chapter 12: The Harp of Worn Strings
* Chapter 13: A Strongly-windy Saturday
* Chapter 14: A Someway Separate Individual
* Chapter 15: Sincerity and Despair
* Chapter 16: It's not Death
* Chapter 17: A Human Prerogative
* Chapter 18: The Merciless Beauty
* Chapter 19: My Shoes
* Chapter 20: An Eerie Quality
* Chapter 21: A Helliad
* Chapter 22: Swift Go My Days
* Chapter 23: By the Blood of Dead Americans
* Chapter 24: To Express Me
* Chapter 25: Bastard Lacy Valentines
* Chapter 26: Sweet Fine Sweatings of Blood
* Chapter 27: Instinct—A 'First Law'
* Chapter 28: Loose Twos
* Chapter 29: Knitting or Plaiting Straw
* Chapter 30: A Life-long Lonely Word
* Chapter 31: Their Voices
* Chapter 32: My Damns
* Chapter 33: To God
* Chapter 34: A Working Diaphragm
* Chapter 35: Lot's Wife
* Chapter 36: My Echoing Footsteps
* Chapter 37: A Comfortably Vicious Person
* Chapter 38: In My Black Dress and My Still Room
* Chapter 39: Their Little Shoes
* Chapter 40: The Sleep of the Dead
* Chapter 41: Stickily Mad
* Chapter 42: God Compensates Me
* Chapter 43: The Strange Braveness
* Chapter 44: Just Beneath My Skin
* Chapter 45: God's Kindly Caprice
* Chapter 46: A Fascinating Creature
* Chapter 47: No Resonance
* Chapter 48: Black-browed Wednesdays
* Chapter 49: The Conscious Analyst
* Chapter 50: Eye When I Mean Tooth
* Chapter 51: A Wild Mare
* Chapter 52: The Mist
* Chapter 53: A White Liner
* Chapter 54: Beneficent Bedlam
* Chapter 55: A Deathly Pathos
* Chapter 56: The Necklace
* Chapter 57: Slyly Garbling and Cross-purposing
* Chapter 58: Not Quite Voilà-tout
* Chapter 59: A Damned Spider
* Chapter 60: To Wander and Hang and Float About
* Chapter 61: A Thousand Kisses
* Chapter 62: A Fluttering-moth Wish
* Chapter 63: Twenty Inches of Ajarness
* Chapter 64: A Profoundly Delicious Idea
* Chapter 65: A Mountebank's Cloak
* Chapter 66: A Familiar Sharp Twist
* Chapter 67: A Dark Bright Fierce Fire
* Chapter 68: Late Afternoon
* Chapter 69: An Ancient Witch-light
* Chapter 70: The Gray-purple
* Chapter 71: The Subdivided Cell
* Chapter 72: Food and Fire
* Chapter 73: The Edge of Mist-and-silver
* Chapter 74: A Right Shape and Size
* Chapter 75: Ice-water, Corrosive Acid and Human Breath
* Chapter 76: Rhythm
* Chapter 77: A Prayer-feeling
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