MURMURS FROM THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
The Imponderables
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2 A dream of Paris: picture in your ears the clunking of my heart as I enter on descending stairs of the Musee d’Orsay to idle among Impressionists with Camus. In the arching hallways—voices “Enchante´.” “Enchanté, Cherie.” The puzzle of Courbet’s “Studio” laid bare: the painter’s model a voyeur 3
Iseult, to her mirror image in Joyce’s book—and everyone knows, you do look lovely in your invisibles. Consider Lady G in our time: her masterpiece a walk about the neighborhood.
Old one with an eye for beauty pruning roses in the front garden stops chewing his tongue.
A workman with a gold tooth who had been staring down into an open manhole in the street —his flashlight of a grin.
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