Fifty years have passed since I started living in those dark towns I was telling you about. Well, not much has changed. I still can't...

TO PAUL VERLAINE Charleville, April 1872 [...] Right now work is about as far from my thoughts as my fingernails are from my eyes. Tough...

I don't see the point of remembering you; you're too boring, Iowa City, Iowa, much duller topologically than Needles, California. I'm...