pages 318 and 319

Another paint-on-the-page spread from the Valentino erasure. The text: “the effusion / was almost a repetition of his earlier brush with / torment / the man wrote / to make himself known / unfortunately, he was naive / looking after / anything but their own problem / his fears / were groundless / the huge / crowd milled around / the police worked / the sands of the desert / . . . / . . . / . . . / in a reappraisal / a horse / likely to be through the air”

The horse appeared just as I was reading Ali Smith’s Glyph, which I recommend.