Explore the Wonder Filled World of
The Open mind
of Lafcadio and James Daniel HEARN
Mother's Brothers
“And you do not remember that dark and beautiful face, with large brown eyes like a wild deer’s, that used to bend above your cradle?”
“We were all very dark as children, very passionate, very odd-looking, and wore gold rings in our ears. Have you not got the marks yet?”
> Lafcadio’s first correspondence with his brother James Daniel. About 1890.
Hearn brothers' wandering worlds
“For I thought of you always as my double: a highly complex nervous organization, with her vital force.”
“When I saw your photograph, I felt all my blood stir, and I thought, ‘Here is this unknown being in whom the soul of my mother lives, who must have known the same strange impulses, the same longings, the same resolves, as I!
>Lafcadio addressing his brother James Daniel
