R2E Excerpt #44*: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Wallace Stevens handed me the binoculars. But all I did was watch. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

*DEAREST READERS: Don’t you hate it when writers get all harrumph-y about what you’re about to read? I do, and here I am, introducing my introduction! Harrumph! As if you’re too dumb to figure out that this is an excerpt from my forthcoming illustrated memoir, of my own coming-of-age moment in Paris and on The Continent, and that I’m back at it, here, based on about six million (yikes!) words worth of daily journal entries I’ve made since October 12, 1978. Take that, Samuel Pepys! You can find the most recent post here, or you can start way back at the beginnng, here. End of harrumphing. I’ll let you read now.