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Pollock 
Lee Pollock 4 

and Hans Namuth finished the film they were making we had a party. That afternoon Jackson had just started to drink again, after his two years on the wagon. We were having dinner at our long table, Jackson and Hans were at the other end. I don't know what the argument was about, but I heard loud voices and suddenly Jackson overturned the whole table with 12 roast beef dinners. It was a mess. I said: [[strikethrough]] "Will everyone [[/strikethrough]] "Coffee will be served in the living-room" Everyone filed out and Jackson went off without any trouble. Jeff Potter and I cleaned up. 
     I will tell you a story about de Kooning. Jackson and he were standing at the Cedar bar, drinking. They started to argue and de Kooning said something very nasty to him. There was a crowd around them and some of the fellows tried to egg Jackson on to hit de Kooning. Jackson turned to them and said: "What me? Hit an artist?" He was not violent. Angry, yes. Bitter, yes. Impatient, yes. Not violent. 
     This is how we got to live in Springs: We had friends, the Kadishes, who rented a house out there in the summer of '45. They invited us to spend a week-end with them. Jackson loved city life. I was the one who had an aspiration to live in the country. At the end of that week-end I said to Jackson: "How about us looking for a place to rent and moving out there? We can rent that house we saw for $40, and sublet our own place." He thought it was a terrible idea. But I remember that when we got back to 8th street he spent three days stretched out on the couch just thinking. Then on Friday he leaped up and said"Lee, we're going to buy a house in Springs and move out!" Well of course we didn't even have the forty dollars to pay rent, not to mention speak of buying a house, so I said "Jackson, have you gone out of your mind?" His answer was : "Lee, you're always the one who's saying I shouldn't let myself worry about the money. We'll just go ahead and do it." We went back to Springs. The house we wanted was

Transcription Notes:
I have a feeling the garbled word before "speak" might be "mention".