Word: tableclothed
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After college graduation in 1912, I traveled to Karlsbad In Austria to visit him. We lunched together in a small restaurant. I noted a fly walking on the tablecloth and attempted to swat it. He turned to me and said quietly, "Let the fly enjoy its promenade on the high plateau." How typical of his considerate attitude toward all things great and small...
...anything much better than a set of decorous formal clichés whose color verges on the garish. Indeed, the only part of the great outdoors he could handle with ease and pleasure was the sea -itself flat, rotating upward to face the viewer like a blue polygonal tablecloth -framed in the shuttered terrace door of a villa on the Côte d'Azur and bearing a yacht's triangular sails the way a folded napkin might sit on a table. It is this still-life sea, a geometrical image of repose and wellbeing, that suffuses some...
...hermit. In fact, she is anything but a hairshirt recluse. She smokes cigarettes. She drives a car. Like nature, she is sometimes guilty of repetition and a certain atrocious lushness:"Silver trees cut into the black sky like a photographer's negative" and "clouds slide by like a tablecloth whipped off a table." But sooner or later, a pilgrim who refuses to believe in progress, she cuts back to the bone. To an age hooked on novelty, variety and pluralism, her message is as clear as William Blake's: "See a world in a grain of sand...
...Vellucci has actually taken addicts by hand to the hospital," she said, gesturing as if to grab the tablecloth. "He's straightened out some of the marital problems of our Vietnam vets and helped them find jobs...
...Picasso, "bull-like vitality ... great naked head" and all. Forced to look at Shaw's hero from a painter's perspective, Picasso sees "a lonely fellow human being moving painfully across an empty canvas." More than likely he spotted a slightly stale, rich novelist doodling on a tablecloth...