Part 1 Love and life: sex versus loveliness; give her a pattern; love; cocksure women and hensure men; nobody loves me; books; climbing down Pisgah; reflections on the death of a porcupine; democracy; the state of Funk; insouciance. Part 2 The spirit of place: England - whistling of birds, Nottingham and the mining country, dull London; Italy - the spinner and the monks, flowery Tuscany, man is a hunter; Germany - the crucifix across the mountains, Mercury, a letter from Germany; Mexico and New Mexico - New Mexico, Indians and an Englishman, just back from the snake dance - tired out, Corasmin and the parrots, a little moonshine with lemon. Part 3 Writing and painting: John Galsworthy; Benjamin Franklin; Moby Dick; Whitman; Giovanni Verga; preface to the American edition of new poems; accumulated mail; making pictures; introduction to these paintings. Part 4 Lawrence and Magnus: the later Mr Maurice Magnus - a letter.
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