Robert Motherwell: Personage with
Yellow Ochre and White (detail), 1947
Norman Mailer once wrote: “Paul Bowles opened the world of Hip. He let in the murder, the drugs, the incest, the death of the Square … the call of the orgy, the end of civilisation.” Bowles believed that the idea that civilisation could conquer the whole world was a myth, and it is this idea, above all the horrors and punishments he gloatingly constructs for feckless foreigners, that restores some excitement in me about modern travel.
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