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...living in the Bateau Lavoir, a studio building in Rue Ravignan. "No one," Kahnweiler recalls, "could ever imagine the poverty, the deplorable misery of those studios. The wallpaper hung in tatters from the unplastered walls. There was dust on the drawings and rolled-up canvases on the caved-in couch. Beside the stove was a kind of mountain of piled-up lava, which was ashes. It was unspeakable...
...conspicuously in his work. Marie-Thérèse inspired a sequence of erotic images which are unique in modern art. Not since Ingres's Bain Turc had sexual feeling been made so concrete in painting. The slow, swelling, profoundly organic rhythms of Nude on a Black Couch, 1932 (41) are a visual equivalent to Blake's praise of "the lineaments of satisfied desire"; even the philodendron, which rises behind Marie-Thérèse's sleeping body, seems to have just had an orgasm...
Finally she seats you on a long bench-like couch, surrounded by potted plastic palms and the kind of pastel spotlights that most Hollywood apartments have only on the outside, underneath what you take must be a self-portrait of herself in the nude...
Which isn't far from the truth. For among the future projects Liz begins to describe once she's again ensconced on the couch are a handful of possible movies, two new books, a record...
After describing how he was psychiatrically shriven of fear, at least for the time being, Greene quotes Dr. Freud: "Much is won if we succeed in transforming hysterical misery into common unhappiness." Alas, the post-couch Greene found himself afflicted with what he describes as a lifelong case of crushing boredom. Antidotes have included staying more or less drunk during his whole first year at Oxford, as well as a famous incident-described in an earlier literary collection and incorporated almost verbatim into this book-about playing Russian roulette with his brother's revolver. After six attempts, Greene insists...