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[[strikethrough]] THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
296th Day      70 Days to come
Aug [[strikethrough]] 6th [[/strikethrough]] 5th

It is 8:30 a.m.,of all undiary hours, & yet I must tuck a few thoughts of Jay away in here for safekeeping, & to keep me from trying this morning to mix wood carving [[strikethrough]] (when I work today) [[/strikethrough]] with Jay in my disorderly tangle of emotions. He came to see me day before yesterday - the one time when Heinz was in town, & Jessie out for dinner, but I gave him an amusing time without them. He thought their house was like a novel - & he liked Jessie's paintings more than Heinz's work - or at least that is the way he told me how much he liked hers. He posed again sweetly for a minute & was mentally sleepy & slow - so [[strikethrough]] thinking so [[/strikethrough]] I lead the bandwagon for once & enjoyed him more than usual. I [[strikethrough]] took him [[/strikethrough]] caught him indirectly teasing Mrs W - & was too embarassed to join them, but apparently she never realized [[strikethrough]] so it was alright [[/strikethrough]]. I took him to Henry's with a picnic basket, & we all ate & drank wine. Henry saw through him with a woman's perspicasity - & told me last night [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] of his opinion when we [[strikethrough]] went [[/strikethrough]] rowed out on the lake [[strikethrough]] with a yellow [[/strikethrough]] while a yellow moon arose. There had been a wild


[[strikethrough]] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
297th Day     69 Days to come
cont.

storm following deadly heat, & so the lake was gently exhausted, & more serenely beautiful than I have ever seen it. He said J. was in a dangerous state in that his arrogance & conceit is a type that wants to impress & frighten [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] other people, instead of being like Heinz's. Heinz does a statue, & then shows you how good it is, but he has done the statue before he boasts, whereas Jay is a young nobody who boasts to the crowd whom he barely knows, without a statue or accomplishment to back him up. Heinz says he is the flashy type who turns abstract in order to [[strikethrough]] make [[/strikethrough]] put his fellow men to shame because they don't understand what he [[strikethrough]] has done [[/strikethrough]] does. [[strikethrough]] He [[/strikethrough]] We talked abstract art for hours last night, & Henry seems to understand it & give it its due. Indian & African sculpture is excellent abstract art, & Clay's is like it - genuine & real in design & reason - but for most abstract art, what is the goal & the reason [[strikethrough]] in back [[/strikethrough]] ahead of it except to impress & upset.