Voices battled with other voices, landslides
of laughter and the juke-box that never stopped. People carried glasses above their heads as
they made their way through the dancers. In one corner the midget stood on
tiptoe, telephoning.
Excerpt from: Gavin Lambert, “Nukuhiva,”
first chapter in “The Slide Area,” New York, The Viking
Press, 1959.
Note: I learned about Gavin
Lambert’s “The Slide Area” from Tom Clark’s Beyond The
Pale blog. It’s extraordinary and the
first book I’ve felt compelled to read compulsively by candlelight (that’s
the way it is 2/6/14 A.D. in Chester County, Pennsylvania) for a
long, long time. More soon, in daylight I
trust.
Artwork: Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec. Upper: At The Moulin Rouge (1892-95); Lower: Dancing At The Moulin Rouge (1897).
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