All for Love: Europe in the Springtime
Sisk, John P.
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...In Rome we lived near the Spanish Stairs, beside which Joseph Severn once nursed the dying Keats and at the top of which, in the opening of Tennessee Williams's The Roman Spring of Mrs...
...Danton and after him Robespierre are said to have been detained before execution in one of the small cells opening off the chapel...
...He was great without the biographical advantages that have almost become the certain signs of the authentic artist...
...It is not easy to find a McDonald's in Paris but sex shops are no problem...
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...Appropriately enough, inside the Basilica the Mass of the day began with this prayer: "God our Father, look upon us with love...
...Jeanne H~buterne, says the biographer Pierre Sichel, was Modiglia n i ' s only g r e a t love...
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...On the train to Paris we shared a couchette with a young couple so intoxicated with one another that they had no need of the Scotch we offered to share with them and seemed unaware that the car, in the best tradition of Italian railroading, had been dispatched from Rome without water and with unflushable toilets...
...Lawrence, who has left his mark all over Europe, would say of her, as of Jean Harris, that she suffered from sex in the head and was therefore doomed to bewitchment and botheration...
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...On a newsstand in the Rome railroad station pornography was on display beside Flash Gordon, IP'alt Disney, and books by and about the Pope...
...Edmond Goncourt reports in his Journal that the women from the brothels had c e l e b r a t e d the occasion the night before with "a tremendous copulat i o n , " offering themselves " t o all comers on the grass along the Champs Elys~es...
...His utopian vision having been sharpened by the censorship of fanaticism, he can say quite honestly: "The number of scoundrels is not great...
...According to a Newsweek we read in Florence, the hospital room in which he lay recovering from his wounds was decorated with a picture of his beloved Black Madonna of Czestochowa...
...One of his kind, Peter Sutcliffe, "The Yorkshire Ripper," would soon be sentenced in England to life imprisonment for the brutal slaying of thirteen women during a five-year reign of terror, the judge not having been persuaded by the Ripper's argument that he had a divine mission to rid the world of prostitutes: We remembered Agca in Paris as we visited the prison in the Conciergerie where in the Chapel of the Girondins you may see such mementoes of that earlier Terror as Marie Antoinette's crucifix and a guillotine blade...
...Modigliani shares the grave with his mistress, Jeanne H~buterne, she having earned her place, the headstone told us, because in her devotion to him she had made the extreme sacrifice...
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...But it is PalJoey, which we had seen a few nights before, that is both sentimental and cynical--even Byronic in its denial of the world of true romance in which musical comedy belongs...
...The whims she had subjected herself to had been aggravated by drugs, alcohol, poverty, lack of recognition, and d e t e r i o r a t i n g health...
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...Nobody says that London in the springtime is for love, but even in London there was an ambiance of romance that took the edge off the news of strikes, riots, and IRA starvation in Northern Ireland...
...The purchaser of a strapless evening gown promised to resell it later for children's charity--and charity, as the Pope should know, is love...
...Lawrence seems to be implying that Hawthorne was so crippled by his culture that he was unable to write an American Lady Chatterley ~s Lover-an implication agreeable to many American readers...
...There are those who describe Oklahoma/ as a sentimental love affair with a lost America, if not an America that never existed at all...
...He believed in himself and his art," says Sichel, "and, truly, nothing else ever mattered...
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...Indeed, he was a version of that most dangerous kind of lover, the armed idealist...
...The Air Afrique ad in the Paris metro stations, featuring Ideal Beauty as a seductive girl in a white bikini, offered both at once to all who would fly away with it and her to La Fete Du Soliel--there to experience the time.stopping transcendence of what Shelley in "Epipsychidion" calls "passion's golden purity...
...But this was not odd for we too had discovered that not only Paris but Europe generally, in the springtime or anytime, was for love of one sort or another, either in present fact or in recollection...
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...Now wc no more expect negotiable demands from terrorists than we expect true love to THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1982 25 be put off by fear of adultery or true art to result if the artist is afraid to sacrifice wife and children to it...
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...Vera Simpson, who is " b e - witched, bothered, and bewildered" to find herself in love again and happy only when she is in love no more...
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...Thinking of them, not Mailer, my wife and I left that place and walked along the Seine to a point where, on the approach to Pont Neuf and oblivious of the noonday traffic, two clutched-together young lovers had obviously chosen Modigliani over Mailer...
...Byron would have had as much fun with it as with the royal wedding had it been available as grist to feed into the mill of his Don Juan...
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...One beautiful Sunday early in J u n e , such a day as makes old lovers young again, we went looking for him in P~re-Lachaise cemetery...
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...On the steps of the church of San Gaetano in Florence two young lovers--German, we guessed--held hands and cried together, and on the Ponte Vccchio among the lost children of the world a bedraggled girl cried in the arms of a bedraggled boy...
...In London, the Sunday Observer featured somewhat belatedly the lost love of Jean Harris for Dr...
...One wants to forget, and yet each day's news returns us to memory...
...In bookstores it was not unusual to find Charles and Diana: A Royal Love Story competing for attention with Gay Talese's Thy Neighbour's l~tfe, as if the management had decided that even royal romance could benefit from a second perspective...
...Agca's shooting of the Pope, like Dante's love of Beatrice, was only a means to higher things...
...Ezra Pound The great days of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore, when it was located at 12 Rue de l'Odeon on the Paris Left Bank, may be behind it, but in its present location across the Seine from Notre Dame Cathedral it is still a place where one can browse in an atmosphere that connotes a legendary past...
...Hawthorne, who fought the Florentine mosquitoes with as little success as we did and who once visited the Brownings at Casa Guidi for tea and strawberries, certainly had the wrong biography fi~r Lawrence, just as America had the wrong history, in his cranky if sometimes shrewd study of The Scarlet Letter he admires the "blue-eyed darling of a Nathaniel" for having in " p e r f e c t d u p l i c i t y " written the "most colossal satire ever penned" about an American that, being a phallic disaster, cannot know its women darkly in the blood...
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...Lawrence's Etruscan Places, we and other Sunday visitors s t e p p e d respectfully around lovers lying abstracted out of time in the long g r a s s - - a s were those other lovers who lay in one another's arms in the open middle section of Ponte Vecchio in 22 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1982 Florence, where the lost children of the world gathered with bedrolls, backpacks, and guitars around the bust of Benvenuto Cellini, himself a proper patron for lovers...
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...F o r Byron as for so many romantics the ideal lovers' enclave is an island, where the syphilis that plagued nineteenth-century writers is as unlikely as Dr...
...Here too he met Countess Teresa Guiccioli and became her faithful cavalier servente, a role he continued to play later in Ravenna, where he established himself with his famous menagerie...
...Mendicant troubadours sang of lost love in the square in front of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, in the metro tunnels and metro trains, and happy /overs contributed to them generously, perhaps out of a realization that happy love can be a good story only when lost love is a possibility...
...Voltaire is there, sharing a place of honor across the corridor from Rousseau, from whose tomb a hand holding a torch protrudes as if a man trapped inside a doghouse were trying to burn his way out...
...Modigliani whose paintings speak of love was of this company...
...If such sentiments do day we ate lunch at a standup bar close to where Byron once lived above the shop of a draper, with whose young, dark-eyed wife he promptly began an affair...
...If love be not in the horse there is nothing...
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...In it one finds this not very loving statement: "We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it...
...Hugo's own funeral procession was witnessed by more than a million people, was attended by rolling drums, booming cannons, and twelve wagonloads of flowers...
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...If like Lawrence he had run off with someone else's wife, if like Stendhal he had come away from his first sexual encounter with a venereal disease that plagued him the rest of his life, if like Hugo he had remained avid of nymphs into old age, if after the trauma of his beloved wife's accidental death by fire he had become an alcoholic instead of picking up his life like the man of character he was--if he had done at least one of these things we might take him more seriously as a poet today...
...There were moments in Modigliani's last years when he probably would have agreed with Mailer, but it is hard to see the John P. Sisk is Professor of English at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington...
...To be denied ecstasy in this post-Enlightenment world is to be denied that other prelapsarian birthright, Utopia...
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...While a Goodyear blimp, sounding like a distant motorboat on a mountain lake, drifted below cotton puff clouds, we thought of the final act in that sacrifice: her suicidal leap from a fifth-story window in her p a r e n t s ' apartment the morning after Modigliani's death...
...Sometimes we strolled into Browni n g ' s neighborhood near the Pitti Palace, always crossing on the Ponte Vecchio where, it was easy to believe, the lost children of the world were p r e p a r i n g their own b r i e f and sad biographies...
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...often he treated her in the best tradition of the totally committed and half-maddened artist, which is to say that he often t r e a t e d her abominably...
...Meanwhile, the American musical Pal Joey, enjoying a successful London revival, featured the 'erotic adventures of the aging socialite, Mrs...
...Romance in Oklahoma/, thanks to the inspired collaboration of composer, lyricist, and choreographer, has a psychological and moral complexity without ever losing sight of the life-supporting distinction among kinds of loving that characterizes Dante's Commedia and S h a k e s p e a r e ' s As You Like It...
...Hugo is t h e r e too, sharing a cell with Zola...
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...Indeed, not so long ago the Pope startled the world with the announcement that it was wrong to lust after one's own wife, let alone someone e l s e ' s - - i n t e n d i n g , perhaps, to clear up some of the confusion about sexual love that had resulted from the earlier papal announcements on the subject by Wilhelm Reich, Norman O. Brown, and Alex Comfort...
...Peter's Square--indeed, all of Vatican City--was an exciting place those days...
...Greet one another with the holy k i s s " What was this if n'ot a charitable injunction to a world confused perhaps no less than ours by the conflicting imperatives of love ? [] 26 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1982...
...She "had the capacity to give h e r s e l f totally to him," and she "gave gladly, without t h i n k i n g " for they were "well matched, a p e r f e c t c o u p l e , " all of which makes her sound like a woman Lawrence would have approved of...
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...He died of tuberculosis in the nuns' charity hospital on Rue Jacob, home street for us in Paris as it had been earlier for Wagner, Sherwood Anderson, and Hemingway...
...The Air Afrique lady may be to us a, familiar incarnation of a cultural Muse, but she is not the kind of Muse Etienne Gilson writes about in A Cl~oir o f Muses...
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...John P. Sisk ALL FOR LOVE: EUROPE IN THE SPRINGTIME Love dopes the Western world...
...One can assume that the Pope looks on Talese's kind of loving as something that belongs in the second circle of Dante's Hell...
...At her funeral Auguste Vacquerie referred to her as a heroine with " a right to her part in the poet's glory, having shown her loyalty in the time of testing...
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...In life at least no love was lost between these two...
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...The paintings are so widely acknowledged," Berger wrote, "because they speak of love," and in case we had f o r g o t t e n , the editors reminded us in a footnote: "Paris in the springtime is for love, as we know...
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...t still in mind, to Westminster Cathedral on Trinity Sunday, the day on which is celebrated, as Dante celebrates it in the last canto of the Commedia, the divine collaboration of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost-the Holy Ghost whom Lawrence always c e l e b r a t e d , if in terms that would have given little comfort to the now convalescing Pope...
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...Flaubert, for whom the world was as ugly as it is forMailer, had literature as his idol and thus no more needed a Muse than Joyce did...
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...This is the way it was with Dante and Beatrice, about whom we often thought as we walked along Via del Corso in Florence where they may have met, and this is the way it was with Petrarch and Laura, though Petrarch being more of a modern man had a harder time putting down his carnal impulses...
...It seems to us that when the weather was right, which wasn't too often, lovers lay in the grass in Russell Square in unprecedented numbers...
...In London's Leicester Square, sex shops were as numerous as electronic games arcades, and Basil Seal was complaining in the Tattler that "at a recent count, central Soho contained more than 150 establishments offering some sort of filth...
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...The Pope was speaking out of charity, in Christian terms the highest form of love...
...Muses tended to disappear in Hugo's century in proportion as the secular spirit made it hard to believe in a love that moves the heavens and all the s t a r s . After Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, potential Muses had to s e t t l e for domestic bliss, become call girls, or learn to administer enemas Victorian and modern to narcissistic males who idolized their own passions...
...And it would be a brave Muse indeed who would venture with Lawrence into the dark forest of his soul, which in Studies in Classic Amem'can literature he opposes to the lighted clearing in which Benjamin Franklin's "venery" takes place...
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...No matter which way one turns the dial, the old images present themselves, the unfinished, unmastered histories revive, r e a p p e a r i n g at times in the oddest ways and in the unlikeliest places...
...Yet dying in Missolonghi a few years later it was not his fulfilled love for Teresa that he celebrated in what was probably his last poem but his unfulfilled love for the handsome Greek boy, Loukas, who had become his page...
...What Sichel does not say is that Modi had been anticipated by that political artist, Robespierre the Incorruptible, who never hesitated to offer a few more heads on the altar of the Republic of Virtue...
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...Indeed, now free from his own wife, " t h a t virtuous monster, Miss Milbanke," he enjoyed various Venetian ladies from one of whom he picked up gonorrhea...
...Browning, in any event, made the b e t t e r approach to the brilliant London revival of Oklahoma/ which we saw one afternoon as our wanderings came to an end...
...He loved a splendid woman all the days of their life together and was loved by her in turn, and when she died he was devastated, but being like Longfellow a man of character he picked himself up and went back to being a great poet, which itself suggests a quality of loving about which Byron and Shelley had only heard rumors...
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...We found him in the Jewish section in the corner of which is the heartbreaking memorial to those six hundred thousand French who in World War II died for France as deportees in the German work force or as fuel for the ovens of Auschwitz...
...Basically, one might say, it is a very Victorian story...
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...Certainly Frieda was not his Muse any more than she was John Middleton M u r r y ' s , and when the latter two became lovers after visiting Lawrence's grave at Vence one could only hope that the dead man still exercised enough spiritualizing power over both of them to keep their love from being mere venery...
...In Siena we saw young lovers kissing as they came hurrying hand-in-hand down the narrow and treacherously cobbled Via di Citta...
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...They kissed between sips of Coca-Cola or Fanta as they sat on the banks ofLac Inferieur in the Bois de Boulogne, or as they stood in line on the ChampsElys~es to see Paul Newman in Le Policeman...
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...This is why we sometimes felt sorry for such parttime Florentines as Hawthorne, Longfellow, and Browning, whose biographies, especially in their love relationships, are so old fashioned-one might even say inartistic...
...Lawrence thought Ulysses was a dirty book, but it was the product of the same non-negotiable heroics as his own Chatterley...
...T h i s willingness of the a r t i s t to sacrifice all, including his own mental and physical well-being, on the altar of art g u a r a n t e e s him an authentically eventful biography...
...But love in the springtime takes many forms...
...His Muses " a r e primarily divinities invented by the Greeks to account for the ordered design which confers upon certain of the ideas and works of man a superhuman loveliness...
...They were law-abiding citizens, paid their debts, honored their contracts...
...The latter featured a piece by John Berger on Modigliani, then the subject of the exhibition we had recently seen at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris...
...They elicit the demand that all must be sacrificed to the absolute beauty they reveal so that the poet may sing the better...
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...even Ezra Pound had to live with that fact...
...And when was Robespierre, the fanatic idolator of the Republic of Virtue, more their heroic fellow artist than when he refused to be distracted from his grand objective by a squeamish reluctance to chop offa few more heads...
...P e t e r ' s Square the Sunday after the assassination attempt in time to hear the Pope say in his taped statement: "I pray for the brother who shot me, and I sincerely forgive him...
...Rousseau disparaged Voltaire as a playwright, and in an anonymous pamphlet Voltaire called Rousseau a heartless father for having abandoned the bastards produced for him by Th~r~se le Vasseur...
...As young men they were not rebellious hell-raisers, they married the women they loved having courted them properly first, and as husbands they were faithful and loving...
...In the Bargello Museum in Florence Michelangelo's statue of Bacchus has been rendered perhaps permanently obscene for many viewers because some vandal had broken off its penis...
...The armed idearists with their fierce and uncompromising charity, and fired with their own kind of passion's golden purity, were just as busy obliterating personality in the interest of their grand themes as their predecessors were two centuries ago when Western Civilization first became intoxicated with the idea of Utopia and began to experience its tradeoff in disgust with the ugliness of the given world...
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...Of course, not all love is happy love, as the poets know...
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...some of them, as we first noticed in Rue des Lombards near the Pompidou, even honor Visa cards...
...AWACS reminds, Iraqi nuclear capability reminds, the threat of Syrian missiles reminds, Ararat reminds...
...We saw them in their amorous isolation in Venice among the pigeons and the tburists of all nations in St...
...Government's oil and gas lease lottery...
...In the chill, crepuscular catacombs of the French Pantheon where we went one morning there are great writers enough but Muses are in short supply...
...Given the subject of his recent books, we would not have been surprised if Norman Mailer's contribution to the New York Review, announced on the cover as "A Vision of Hell," had taken off on the same subject...
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...Who would have understood better the words of that armed Libyan idealist, Mu'ammar al-Qaddafi, which we had read the day heft)re in Time: "The duty of the revolutionary committee is to practice revolutionary violence against the enemies of the revolution" ? St...
...Whenever in Florence we walked by the building in which he had lived on the Piazza di Santa Maria Novella, I thought how unwisely he had ordered his life...
...Longfellow was a fine teacher and an important transmitter of European l i t e r a t u r e to America, as well as a poet whose marvelous ear and instinct for technical experimentation should have impressed Ezra Pound, who was said to be his grandnephew...
...Voltaire also thought the success of La Nouvelle HeloTse one of the infamies of the century...
...Lawrence, whose lady Chatterley's Lover was written and first published in Florence, defined love in terms of a romantic obliteration of personality, and one consequence is that not only do the women in Lawrence, Byron, and Shelley have a tendency to sound like clones off the same original, but there is a sameness in the language of passionate abandon that they inspire...
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...Once the pornographic imagination of J u d has been vanquished we expect the lovers Laurey and Curly to enjoy their honeymoon, their island out of time, but we know that their wished-for destiny is not the utopia of passion's golden purity but life as husband and wife in the human, time-bound community...
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...Young motorbiking lovers startled us with their temerity as they held hands traveling side by side on Rue Bonaparte, and young thespian lovers charmed us with their optimism at a Friday evening in Maggi Nolan's Celebrity Services office, where not too many Friday evenings previously the late William Saroyan had charmed everyone...
...Two handsome young Japanese cried with their arms around each other in the Colosseum...
...A Muse would have to tend her own garden, not his, and this is not what Muses are supposed to do...
...No doubt, there were far more patrons in the sex shops of Leicester Square that afternoon, submitting themselves to the darkness in their blood, than there were in the Palace Theater...
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...So he too was a kind of lover--no less than was John Hinckley who devoted his attempted assassination of President Reagan to the movie star, Jodie Foster...
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...We saw lovers strolling hand-in-hand through the Modigliani exhibit or the Louvre, or ducking under the turnstile in the Rue du Bac metro station and kissing afterward...
...Of course, most people were sorry for the Pope, and many admired his charitable forgiveness of his brother...
Vol. 15 • June 1982 • No. 6
