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...reminiscent of buildings in New Orleans and Italy"--is none too definitive. Miss Porritt suggests that the building is "vaguely Italian Renaissance, although not in the same sense that Sever is Italian Renaissance." And an imaginative parent took one look at the plaster model and pegged it "houseboat motif...
Some dissident painters who left Paris for the leafy countryside around Barbizon changed all that. One such artist, Charles Francois Daubigny,* bought a 29-ft. houseboat which he named Le Botin and turned into a floating studio. For 21 years he sailed the waterways of France in search of nature as freshly seen as newly picked lettuce, and he was a more influential forerunner of impressionism than all the others...
...Srinagar, beside Kashmir's famed Dal Lake, thousands of pilgrims were gathering for last week's festival of Shaab-e-Baraat when the sorrowful news crackled from houseboat to houseboat, from hut to hut. The guard on duty at Hazrat Bal (literally Majestic Place) had left his post long enough for thieves to saw out the strongroom locks, smash the cabinet and make their getaway. The prophet's hair was gone...
Jimson is the Edwardians' secret dream of an unfetterd vie boehme come to life: he owns a houseboat, he hates the rich and noble to their Philistine faces, he is witty and irascible, he is irresistible to women. Also, as I have mentioned, he is a lousy painter, but the secret of Jimson's charm, the fact that allows us to let him get away with all his outrageousness, is that he never, or hardly ever, pretends that his work is much good. He is too much of an artist to try that...
Jimson then organizes a community mural of the Last Judgment on the wall of a condemned chapel, and himself demolishes it with a bulldozer to spare the wreckers the ignominy, as he explains it, of "destroying a national monument." In the end, he cuts his houseboat adrift, and idles down the Thames dreaming of something even more spectacular perhaps on the side of a battleship...