what does "project my mind all the way to "mean? There we are face to face with one of those women to whom Stendhal granted genius. The genius to go forward, to laugh, to put things in their place, to make with the fan, to climb into a carriage, to invent a crown. It is a genius that Misia possessed to such a degree that in writing Thomas L'imposteur, I could try as I might to project my mind all the way to the San Severina, but Misia automatically became, whatever the cost, the model for the Princesse de Bornes.