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PARTISAN REVIEW
-I've wallowed for today thank you. Control is the thing.
-Control used to be the thing. Now, abandon.
-I'll never achieve abandon.
-Work hard and concentrate. Try Clown, Baby, Hellhag,
Witch, the Laughing Cavalier. The Lord helps those–
-Purple bursts in my face as if purple staples had been
stapled there every which way-
-Hurt by malicious criticisms all very well-grounded-
-Oh that clown band. Oh its sweet strains.
-The sky. A rectangle of glister. Behind which, a serene
brown.
A
yellow bar, vertical, in the upper right.
-I
love you, Gottlieb, quite exceptionally.
-By gum
I
think you mean it. I think you do.
-It's
Portia Wounding Her Thigh.
-It's
Wolfram Looking at His Wife Whom He Has Impri-
soned with the Corpse of Her Lover.
-If
you need a friend I'm yours till the end.
- Your gracious and infinitely accommodating presence.
- Julia's is the best. Best I've ever seen. The finest.
-The muscle of jealousy is not in me. Nowhere.
-Oh it is so fine. Incomparable.
-Some think one thing, some another.
-The very damn best believe me.
-Well I don't know, I haven't seen it.
-Well, would you like to see it?
-Well, I don't know, I don't know her very well do you?
-Well, I know her well enough to ask her.
-Well, why don't you ask her if it's not an inconvenience
or this isn't the wrong time or something.
-Well, probably this is the wrong time come to think of it
because she isn't here and some time when she is here would
probably be a better time.
-Well, I would like to see it right now because just talking
about it has got me in the mood to see it.
If
you know what I
mean.
-She told me that she didn't like to be called just for that
purpose, people she didn't know and maybe wouldn't like if she
did know, I'm just warning you.
