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Back to Boston, to Greenland. back to Boston.
1955 - Sail to Baltimore, Cuba, through Panama to Long Beach, Calif.
(l'm getting tattooed along the way.)

To Hawaii. Midway. Japan. (In Tokyo. I hear the Firebird Suite, my
first classical music. I start to read day and night: Joyce, 
Freud. Dostoyevsky, Camus, Sartre, Mailer. Jones.)
To Hong Kong. the Philippines, Formosa, Korea, back to Japan, to Hawaii.
To San Francisco. The ship anchors at Vallejo.
1956 - Painting class nights at Vallejo Jr. College. I start to drop
out again.
I get busted in SF for grass. In jail 8 mos. I get an undesirable
discharge. I keep reading and write a short story (lost).
Wolfe, Poe, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Mann, The Bros. Karamazov.

1957 - 1 get out or jail. Hitchhike to NY. meet an anthropologist in
-N. Mex., hang around an Indian digging.

Feb. 1957 - 21 years old. Back home, gone 4 yrs. Father gets me a job.
I get a beatnik girlfriend. Her father turns me on to
Baudelaire. I keep reading: lunch hour, all night. Dickens.
Maugham. Jung. Datchen, Rimbaud.

"La Jazzoo" 1958 - Design and build a Jazz Club near Brooklyn College.
Qui5 my job, I meet a poet-painter named Jerry Baker. I rename
him Taragoo. we live and work at the Jazzoo four mos.  I make
some mobiles and a painting. He is my teacher. The Jazzoo closes.

Taragoo and I become students at the A.R.T. (Actor Repertory Theater)
Workshop, 3rd Ave & 33rd St., NYC. (we live with other students
cross town in a big loft.) The Director is wendell Philips,
formerly of the Group Theater in Chicago in the 1930's, and
the Actors Studio in N.Y.C. in the 1950's.
Classes during the week and performances of plays on weekends.

A.R.T. workshop - Classes in Acting, Body movement, Speech (phonetics).
Shakeepeare's Hamlet, Greek Playwrights, Set Design. make-Up.
comparative Literature.

"Adding Machine" - I'm Stage manager.
"Winterset" - I'm the sailor. bit part.
One - Act Plays from the playwright class as an actor. One of note is a
Street Ballet" a la West Side Story. I'm reading Stanislavsky. Wilhelm
Reich, Otto Rank. mythology.
"Mice and Men" -  We took Steinbeck's last act and worked it out by

Michael Chekov's (Anton's nephew) method called symptomatic
gesture and performed in symptomatic gesture as an experiment.

"Cradle Song" - I helped design and build the set and played the male
lead. Reading a play a day for awhile. the Greeks. Shakespeare.
Tennessee Williams, Lorca.

Greenwich Village, move in with Doc Stanley (folksinger and later a
reporter for the Underground Dress Syndicate).

Sullivan St. Playhouse. Doc scores an empty theater. All the homeless
artists move in. (See Antonia Lamb's book "Remember the Summer" [1973 ed.];
Doc's Ernest and I'm Eli in the Book about "The Pad.") Start
smoking Hashish alot.

I meet Danni Dragnet. Seat Post. I start reading his long poem "The
Fable of the Final Hour" (a call for the death of old age
thinking) at the poetry readings at "The Gaslight."

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