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RAPALLO

Dearest V/

HAOW yew managed to have three chillen by a gori
/llah before you found it out .... will remain a mystery to
the mere male mind.

I never said the abnormal showed commen sense/
I never tried to sell anybody on the abnormal.

Classic urge/ mathematical analogy in article
on Vorticism ( 1914 etc... if you care for elaboration of
this theme. )

LIVING

Cocteau the one french writer whom I can read
with interest. His plays NO! faked.

I LIVE on the roof. Top flat in the horribly re/exterior'd
palazzo, that once WAS etc. but didn't have then a terazza
on top, not so much.

Diet I shall not discuss; I have survived 47 years
of eating.

Yaas yaaaass them southern voices, no rose but
the negros; etc. Yaas yaas, and all of 'em losing the
capacity to speak their own langwidg and learning broadway
refined yittish or whatever is now spoke by unpleasant
whites. To refined te talk like thei daddies.

VIA MARSALA 12-5

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RAPALLO

Dearest Vi

If I don't start answerin' yr/ note in the
middle I'll have to read the damn thing again .
Shaw is a drivveling old idiot. He never was A.I. in
his best day, and is now gaga. He suffers from a mALFORD malformation ( or has the symptoms ) /
He wd. nt enter a brothel because he has heard they
ask the customers to PAY.
Churchill is a bag of wind, and Tadpole ... you were
and wd. have been above suspicion about wanting to hear
of his boyhood days in the bishop's garden. The kind of
young man that looks fer a lady a few years older who
can bring a sufficient social position into the matrimonial
conjunction. wotterhell.

Health / since you insist on these details, is
offered by slot machines in Vienna/ I doubt if
Bernie knows that.

...

No / I prob/ wdnt. understand the movie mags/ IN THE SAME
way/

I went over the Cines plant a few months ago. etc.
and have sat in at a lot of eraly experiments
vortecin' Man Ray/ etc.

Cocteau found that a half million francs wasnt so much/
cost him 40;600 straight off for borax for a snow strom.
as he wanted his baes in wood or wotbloody ever
burried nice an deep/ chep cheep cockarobin.

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RAPALLO

fixative by great hartists don't like it cause it bitches
the colour.

Yes; more or less re/ final ? ) except that they are
less interesting as one grows more antient and crusted
and the surprises get rarer and rarer.

She / be kept in separate loose box and
seen with varying frequency.

As you have prob/ fergot what you wrote by now/ you can
do a bit of probin' into yer/ sub/cellar/consciousness
to dig out wot itzall erbout

If I were only a novelist / like Tadpole / is she/ 'ang on
yer lips/ but of course that sort of thing
ought to be useful to ANY historian of moeurs contemporaines.

403-50 Edit. Brunner & C., Como - Riprod. vietata

8 June 1933

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RAPALLO

VIA MARSALA 12-5

Deerest Viorer

The nooz iz that me secun upry or muzikul
trargerdy is likely to be broadcast from England. So you
can apply yr/ multifold ingenuity ( you comin of a
warblink family ) in telling me how to write out a
FOOL/proof mss/ that will prevent the gordam singers hollerin
and puttin th bumps in the wrong places. Yes yes the
accent is on the furst beet ov th' bar etc. and when
the accent izn't ?? and when it is on etc/

yes yes , you change th' etc. and the
singers !!!

to thers/ mhore tdone , tdamn you! mhore
TDOne , I kan stidl hear th zingers !!

Anyhow if you can git London, that'll do you more good
tha McDonald.

The boss hasn't yet heard the moozik but says the h Administrative
are still hummin the furst one. so that's that. mebbe this
will stop 'em.

Nowz to cinema/ Mae West haz took all
th paint off the choimunz/ an the phantom president is
a purrfect picture of the last three stinkers that
held the job. You dont say you saw Mae in She dun him wrong
but if you didn't its you dun wrong to yerself. wot else.

luv tu th fambly

Hotel Italia, ROMA

2P Oct

Mar VI

Yr/ friend babyface Hoover seems
to have gone Marxist ( you know, Karl
Marx; the distinguished socialist..

is Herbie QUOTING from Marx ?

yrs. EZ