Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 10/17/12: Very trim, very tan.

Jacob Lawrence, "Self-Portrait" (1977) — Jacob Lawrence, *Self-Portrait* (1977)

October 17, 2012:

Very trim, very tan. T-shirt, lightweight hiking pants. Middle aged but hair still jet black. Limping from injury.

Isolated. Traveling alone, speaks no French, the American tourists are honeymooners or wealthy retired couples interested in cruise ships and resorts. Once or twice there are kindly working class Australian couples he immediately bonds with. Mostly, not.

Happy. The force of gravity this place exerts throughout the Enlightenment: Pagans in Paradise. The places themselves: Matavai Bay, Point Venus, Moorea, Huahine. Beautiful, compelling, binding.