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Words About James

by Matthew Cooperman

(2006)

Illustrations by Lisa Cooperman

 

 

 

 

 Chapter One


 first tales
 in the closing years
 moving fr. Realism
 to Symbolism



 the echo of opera



In the course of their sounds the October afternoon. The idea
any contact between them in the past. A view of Weatherend
itself. The authorship of the sketches? More imagination to her
than to all the others put together. There on a brief visit,
her guessing more or less part of the establishment.
Rome or maybe Naples. Distinctly handsome, the impression,
operating like the torch of a lamplighter who touches
into flame. It hadn’t been Rome at all. Her at twenty-five,
he at the Palace of Caesars. They as a linger acquainted.
This, a mood, a life determined. And the accepted emendations.
The present so much of the other.

 at his death
 a vast body

 of letters
 easily adaptable

 stage ’n screen

 oeuvre, the
 root of work

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