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18 October. Yesterday I got just about all the images for my presentation printed and in order, but did little writing. It may be that I'll just show the images and ad lib. I'm sure I could do all right that way, but I'd prefer to have a few insights on hand to deliver--in comprehensible language. Anyway, because I have a lot to do today, I'll just present a painting by my favorite painter, Paul Klee, that my vispo friends will call a visual poem but I consider a textagraph, or picture of writing, as opposed to writing.
I really enjoyed going through my many books of paintings by Klee looking for specimens for my presentation. I wish someone would pay me to write a monograph on him. I think I could do a good job, and would surely have fun doing it. In his best paintings, he seems to me to get us to a manywhere-at-once equal to anything the best poets get us to while at the same time equaling the best pure compositions of the non-representational painters illumagistically. This is no original observation, but what I'd like to have time to do is to show exactly how he accomplishes this rather than merely saying he does as most who have written about him have done.
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