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"2 / The Cure"

Night 52

1) "Yet we must try." Ink, pencil. On verso of a "Rigor Vitae" manuscript.

Night 53

2)"As to my face." Pencil, draft

Night 54

3)"If I am human still . . .  . Taki run over by a friends his own truck." Ink, draft, one sketch. 

Night 54a

 4) "Of an incommunicable energy." Ink, pencil, draft paper.

Night 55

8) "Fall the Shadow." Ink, bond paper.

Night 56

11) "2. THE CURE." Pencil

Night 57

12) "2. THE CURE." Ink.

Part 2 of the poem, "The Cure," is set in Athens, Greece, and particularly in the Royal Park--known officially since 1920 as the Royal Garden. It describes the meeting with "Taki" in the Royal Park in Athens. Langdon Hammer writes that Taki: "a sweet young man who’d been a sexual partner for [Tony] Parigory and then Merrill that spring, had been run over and killed while taking a nap in the shade of another driver’s truck" (321.)