Tea and Poetry #4

This week's favorite is a short story. It's intriguingly beautiful and thoughtful.

Here is an excerpt:

"I took the Metro to Cité. I walked past Notre-Dame and thought of the hunchback Quasimodo swinging his misshapen body across the bell-ropes of love for Esmeralda. Quasimodo was a deaf mute. Cupid is blind. Freud called love an ‘overestimation of the object’. But I would swing through the ringing world for you."

- Jeanette Winterson, "All I Know About Gertrude Stein."

Read the rest here.