I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life and knowing themselves that there was no mystery. - Isak Dinesen

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Isak Dinesen: "I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life and knowing themselves that there was no mystery."

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Barrel	Charming	Empty	Girl
Image	Keeping	Knowing	Life
Lighted	Mutiny	Mystery	Order
Powder	Remember	Saves	Seemed
Ship	Sitting	Tale	Themselves
Time	Torch	Under	Women
World

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