Simon Lane
This First Proof contains the story “Beauty and the Beast.”
The magician never gives away his secrets. Tunga is content to explain his, yet the sum of these secrets remains a mystery.
“Given the time we’re living in it is useless to paint the landscape simply for its beauty or to delight in its pastoral order. It’s really more in flux than anything else, more of a focus for emotion, expression, experience, and memory.”
I dream of Paris a good deal here in Tamarama.
I was sorting out some things the other day and came across a plastic bag.
Saturday, August 14, 1982. I have come to Duncan Hannah’s apartment in the Upper West Side. I have met him once before, briefly. He appears to be a man attuned to the inevitability of eclecticism in the modern artist.