Word: djuna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Footloose Dancer Djuna was not the only one who was enthralled by Rango the Guatemalan Indian. Paris nightclub patrons who heard his songs "drank from his voice and his guitar." But it was Djuna who rented a barge on the Seine for him. There, while Djuna cried, "You are the God of Fire," and Rango kissed her feet, they "gave each other their many selves, avoiding only the more recent ones...
...Chambered Heart is just about as silly as this sounds. It piles a mountainous icing of surrealist imagery and rubbery aphorisms on a little cake of plot no bigger than a thumb. The plot: Range's psychopathic wife fakes illness to keep her weak-willed husband away from Djuna's barge; eventually she brings both of them under her spell and has them waiting on her hand & foot. Despairing Djuna decides to sink herself, lover, barge and all. At the last minute she changes her mind and dives into a dot-studded, six-page stream of consciousness...