Jacob Lawrence, "Two People in a Bar" (1941)
Jacob Lawrence, Two People in a Bar (1941)
Can a Game Be Literature?

Mark's Pages

January 9, 2011:

There's a lot of alcohol in those notebooks. She drinks nearly every night.

Sociability around a bottle. Bars and sexual intrigues. At the time this all seemed very forced to me. Now in light of experience, perhaps more sinister.

I rejected her circle and was labelled socially ill-adept. Maybe intuition was already saving me, even then.