Mostly Muse

Copyright © 2013 by Ursula Krammer Maynard. 305572-KRAM

1. Muse

2. Art

Posthistoire

21st Century

ISBN: Softcover    978-1-4836-0390-2

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This is a work of autobiographical nonfiction.The author has been or lived in all places mentioned as some of the photos indicate, has held all books in hand if not read, and seen all plays. Names of people she did not wish to mention are omitted and not even mentioned by first name or abbreviation.

Rev. date: 04/04/2013

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CONTENTS

PIZARRO

TITIAN

HOLLY

THREE WITCHES

MARGARET

CLOUD NINE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PIZARRO lies beside the body of Atahuallpa and quietly sings to him.

He sings: See, see the fate, oh little finch, oh robber birds, oh little finch. The sun glares at the audience. The Inca warriors are stupid. They always do what they are told. They are neither poor nor rich, they are all the same.

Pizarro does not fear danger. But what do worshippers do when you snatch their God? They do nothing. Or would you worship the king instead? It would avoid bloodshed. Fame is long. Death is longer. Does anyone ever die for anything?

The only women that Pizarro would have had were not the sort one married. He used to look after women with hope but they did not have much time for him. When Pizarro was young he used to watch the sun go down. He used to have a utopian vision. If only he could find the place where the sun sinks to rest for the night he would find the source of life, like the beginning of a river. He used to wonder if it where perhaps an island, a strange place of white sand where people never die, never grow old, and never feel any pain. When I went to a Maurizio Pollini concert at Carnegy Hall in March 1996 a man sat to my right. He introduced himself as a professional actor and movie critic. He had also taught at Harvard and Yale. He had been in Hollywood when Hollywood was great. He had been in fourteen countries in Europe just as I had been in fourteen countries in Europe as a European. He had played the king in HAMLET, Macbeth in MACBETH, and some part in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. He knew Rita Hayworth. He was a member of the Century Club in New York.

He had played Molnar on Broadway. His wife was a fashion model. He had been to runway shows in Paris when runway shows were something special. He collected spurs. He said he shines them every three weeks. When he worked in Cecil B. DeMill’s studios he advised on costumes such as Austrian uniforms. He knew that the Austrian emperor Franz Josef’s uniform was without epaulettes whereas the Russian ones had big ones. It is amazing. There are so many interesting people one meets if one goes somewhere. He also knew Gary Cooper. Gary Cooper’s daughter lives in the Street where I live now with Peter. He bought me the ticket for the concert. It was a Beethoven piano program. THE APPASSIONATA