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9/21 Yesterday - to Jones Beach with Peter, Myrtle, Violet & Kimi. Jones Beach faces the Atlantic at Long Island. At 4:30 it was already quite dark, and as I stood alone on the sand I could see the beach stretch in one broad plain the length of the island. It was very cold, and my hands nearly froze when I dug into the sand to feel the water. Huge clam shells dotted the shore & the waves broke in the gray light. A crescent moon & a star hung low in the sky. There was tall yellow grass along the way! & again I saw Manhattan in the night. Today I went to see "How Green Was My Valley" - [[strikethrough]]& w [[/strikethrough]] Moving, & full of the passion for life. [[end page]] [[start page] 11/22 Read a review of "Storm" - a new novel with a storm as the main character who looks down on the lives of people. It was as if I had thought of the theme years ago. Lava? With Violet & Pierre & Felica 11/? Renoir show: a comprehensive, 80 pc. in a crowded 3 rm gallery. The works: as I expected - no different from the reproductions in my Renoir book. A few I had never seen, but all distinguished by opulence of color & delicacy of treatment. His work is almost academic today,- & yet, to think it was radical in his day. Then to a Mattson show, which held a personal note of fascination for me - not a great artist, but so meaningful to me: as Aiken [[strikethrough]] is [[/strikethrough]] (as a poet) as Kent, Jeffers. His Stars & The Sea I could have painted myself if I had only put aside doubts & intellectual