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These last years of Paul Claudel have been a little baffling to the Japanese. Here was a hard, shrewd statesman of the first rank who would draw a shapeless caricature for his dinner partner and remark with emphatic sincerity: "Madame, I would give my whole position and perhaps half my talent could I learn to draw or sculp...
Daily he spent hours with a Japanese sculptor, and later with a Japanese musician. To the one Paul Claudel tried to describe the strange forms and shapes that stir in his mind. To the other he talked of tones and tunes never perhaps to be heard. The sculptor and the musician did the best they could; and, it is said, eased somewhat Paul Claudel's thirst to create, even in mediums where his keen mind tells him that he has neither talent nor skill...
...Paul Claudel a close friend has said: "His thoughts as he expresses them are extremely difficult to understand. ... He fashions words out of Latin and Greek roots, picks them out of all sorts of strange places, until you seem to be wafted on a bright, flying carpet woven all of butterflies...
Manhattan knows Paul Claudel because the Swedish Ballet Company danced his Man and His Desire just off blatant Broadway, three years ago; and recently the Theatre Guild produced his Tidings Brought To Mary...
Speaking from stout Saxon roots to Kansas Cityites, last week, M. Claudel said: "The Grand Canyon which I have just visited, is indeed a Hell of a hole, the most beautiful I've ever seen...