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...moreover, immovably eccentric: a gray whisper of a man who lived for 54 years with his crippled brother in a house on Utopia Parkway in Queens, N.Y.- an exile more singular than any expatriation to Tahiti. Cornell loved the idea of Europe but never went there. The house was crammed with cartons, dossiers, packets of old photos, clippings, hoarded books, gewgaws and boxes; these constituted the world in which he traveled. His only public gestures were occasional exhibitions and cover designs for the ballet magazine Dance Index. Self-promotion was unthinkable to him. Cornell always seemed an emissary from...
Maybe the governor-general's friends are jealous of him for being in Tahiti and all. He's got a pretty sweet deal, right? Nice weather, not much to do, a big white mansion, beaches, all that stuff. Who's to say there isn't even a little fooling around on the side? Anybody's got to admit there would be worse things than being governor-general...
...never been there myself, but I think I've got as good an idea as the next guy about what the general situation is down there. Take my brother-in-law, for example. When he was in the Navy he had a buddy who'd been down to Tahiti, and this guy could confirm the whole thing, detail for detail--the palm trees, the beaches, the governor-general, everything...
...point is, here we are, right? What's the use of thinking about Tahiti? Why do people even ask me about it all the time? None of this has to be a big deal, even here. Take my father. There was a man who had a philosophy. He philosophy was, what the hell, why not enjoy life all year round? Why pretend any time's better than any other? I'll give you an example. The summer's nice and warm, and you can drive out to the beach, and you can read a lot of magazines and stuff that...
Sometimes I like to think about the governor-general's car, though, down in Tahiti. I mean, I'm happy with my Nova but I figure if he's a class guy he's probably got one of those english cars. A Jensen Interceptor. And being governor-general, he probably doesn't get too many speeding tickets. Even if he gets pulled over, the cop probably says I'm sorry governor-general, I didn't know it was you. Go right on. So the governor-general probably takes out this Jensen Interceptor--this is the picture I have, see--late...