She Was Savage And Superb

Bob Dylan: Love Minus Zero / No Limit

KATHLEEN'S NIPPLE FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER

Bob Dylan: Simple Twist of Fate...take 1

And from right to left
along the lighted shore
moved a wild and gorgeous
apparition of a woman.
She walked with measured steps,
draped in striped
and fringed cloths,
treading the earth proudly,
with a slight jingle and flash
of barbarous ornaments.
She carried her head high;
her hair was done
in the shape of a helmet;
she had brass leggings
to the knee,
brass wire gauntlets
to the elbow, a crimson spot
on her tawny cheek,
innumerable necklaces
of glass beads on her neck;
bizarre things, charms, gifts of witch-men, that hung about her, glittered and trembled at every step. She must have had the value of several elephant tusks upon her. She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.
--Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness