Sublime

Je me suis prise d’une grande sympathie pour lui, sans parler du fait que je le tenais pour un de nos plus grands poètes. Mon exemplaire écorné de The Happy Birthday of Death campait sur ma table de nuit. De tous les poètes beat, Gregory était le plus jeune. Il possédait une beauté ravagée et une arrogance à la John Garfield. Il ne se prenait pas t

‘There had been many years of his life when he was a tall, good-looking man, no gut, strolling about the campus at Harvard, and people did look at him then, for all those years, he would see students glance at him with deference, and also women, they looked at him.’

James Jones, who was living in Illinois and inching ahead with From Here to Eternity.