Landscape With Traveler
“Our section did mainly underwater photography research, which consisted of putting on aqualungs and banging test-model cameras around the pool taking pictures of each other, and then going back to develop the film.
It was a do-nothing job, as are most military jobs, and I mostly stayed in the office playing chess with my officemate. The room had a big glass wall that looked out over the wooded grounds of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, where Pound was living at that time. He was my god, and I use...d to go and stare through the gates at the inmates, trying to see him, but never did. I used to imagine him strewn in a chair, one leg up, cape around his shoulders, large hat flopped to one side, holding court on the lawn like Cyrano de Bergerac come to the convent to visit Roxanne, only in this case it was the others come to visit Ezra. I was too shy to write and ask if I could see him, which is certainly just as well. After all, what would I have to say to God?
In the meantime, I’d started studying ballet with Leon Fokine, who had his school there, and two months after I began male dancers were in such demand that even I was asked to join the company to perform at the Cherry Blossom Festival, where we did, of all things, a big Hungarian czardas.MoreLess
It was a do-nothing job, as are most military jobs, and I mostly stayed in the office playing chess with my officemate. The room had a big glass wall that looked out over the wooded grounds of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, where Pound was living at that time. He was my god, and I use...d to go and stare through the gates at the inmates, trying to see him, but never did. I used to imagine him strewn in a chair, one leg up, cape around his shoulders, large hat flopped to one side, holding court on the lawn like Cyrano de Bergerac come to the convent to visit Roxanne, only in this case it was the others come to visit Ezra. I was too shy to write and ask if I could see him, which is certainly just as well. After all, what would I have to say to God?
In the meantime, I’d started studying ballet with Leon Fokine, who had his school there, and two months after I began male dancers were in such demand that even I was asked to join the company to perform at the Cherry Blossom Festival, where we did, of all things, a big Hungarian czardas.MoreLess
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