Alison L. Strayer

Negroes Fighting in a Cellar at Night

reading The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese and Rosamond Lehmann’s Dusty Answer, and on seeing the following films, whose titles I felt the need to list before starting to write:

Wanda, Love Is My Profession, Sue Lost in Manhattan, Girl with a Suitcase, and After Lucia

listening to Brassens and the Golden Gate Quartet on her phonograph instead of Gloria Lasso and Yvette Horner

She has no defined self, but “selves” who pass from one book to another.

ed staircase like the one in the painting by Chaim Soutine

pursuing the fling

I do not know if the girl in the car on her way to camp would have recognized herself in these descriptions.

The proclamation “Life is worth living” frequently recurs.

portico flanked by two porter’s lodges.

perceive in the persistence