(End of term and having been paid for the sale of 4 paintings at Galerie Vincent)

Primarily annotated at the beginning of the book and lightly in the text. Unfortunately he did not annotate the last chapter: Penelope, Molly Bloom's soliloquy.

The two Scottie bitches, Susy & Lindy enjoy eating the delicious noise they make when devouring their ½ Outspan mob [?]. W. B [this item is dated 30.6.67 and thus appears to have been added later]

An artists’ duty is to penetrate deeper and see what the casual observer does not see.

Human nature must how itself in art by sometimes going along with outside nature but at the same time resisting it. A sculptor does with the grain of the wood or the stone; goes with it to use it, but at the same time he resists it in places to declare his human emphasis OVER the material. A musician goes with the song of the birds and wind and water and then as suddenly visits the music so as not be an imitation of a bird but a human being.

To understand what is happening one must clear away all the people who are making money, or the lazy ones. who do nothing and the criminals who prey on others. One must clear them away to find the 2 or 3 who have a vision and are doing something good for the spiritual life. Perhaps there are 6 such people in South Africa amongst the whites.

South Africa is too anaemic in human blood - so large a body of land with too few people to keep her warmly human. The sun's heat is cold without love - a great machine raping the surfaces - less sun and more human beings would give more warmth.

On the title page:

The penis is the one who retains the power of the vision - who captures the inspiration longest. The persistence of the creation at its highest and most sensitive and most dizzy and most precious level - so fragile it will collapse.

{Illustration} Diagrammatic fabric of creation. The quivering upper truth revealed to the few. Higher level through hard work. Thick firm sturdy truth (adolescent level).

Whenever I look at Greek art it comes like a great cloud of calm to my body and mind which stick out useless activities like a porcupine. The cloud calms the quills which decline into nothingness & leave me with a shapely polychrome self. Aug 1950 after looking at Seltmann's "Appointment to Greek Art." [?]

One is free entirely & educated when one is free to commit the sins of desire and one has not the desire to sin but to follow the good.

I know I am very right when I hear & see the authentic landscapes and am ashamed of having thought I could be understood by the people around me who hear & see not the the authentic landscape.

.