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  Meanwhile, they isolated themselves from the art life in the city. “We were not Club people. We left the city in '45 when The Club was at its heyday. We are not belongers. Physically, we are not there." Where they were and what they belonged to, instead of quickening politics of the art world, was their work and certain introspections Krasner is not averse to talking about. In fact, sitting on her porch, she returns to a level of feeling that [[crossed-out]] must be [[/crossed-out]] seems relatively un [[crossed-out]] touched [[/crossed-out]] diminished.

One thing Jackson and I had in common was experience on the same level. feeling the same feelings about landscape for instance...or about, say, the moon. He did a series around the moon. He had a mysterious involvement with it, a Jungian [[crossed-out]] feeling idea [[/crossed-out]] thing. [[crossed-out]] I felt what he did, but I didn't express it. [[/crossed-out]] I had my own way of using that material. Very often I would get up at 2 or 3 and come out on the porch and just sit in the light, here. [[crossed-out]] God. [[/crossed-out]]
  
We had a helluva lot in commong..our interests...our goal. ART was the thing, for both of us. We focussed on it, zeroed in on it, because our backgrounds, though different, were not so different as all that. Cody....Brooklyn. Not so different. 
 
With Jackson there was quiet....solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner....to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
  
If we had found we couldn’t sleep at dawn, we might drive the little car and park it and go walking in the woods, for hours. That was the big thing to do. Or....let’s go swimming at night. 
  
Common responsibilities. They infuse a life. How to achieve that again.....?
  
The fact that he drank, and was extraordinarily difficult to live with was another side. But the thing that made it possible for me to hold my equilibrium were these intervals when we had so much.