People here, perhaps everywhere, are joking about Tiger Woods in his current
embarrassment. The men I overhear say how much better they could have coped with
his millions and his women...
Max
I've now added six lines about aesthetic bliss ..
Quoting Brian Hawkins <[log in to unmask]>:
> Nice one Max!
>
> This is why I've always preferred the simple life. Swarms of ravishing young
> mistresses, million year old wines and tastefully decorated chauffeurs are
> all very well, but I just don't know if I could take that nagging sense of
> disappointment.
>
> Brian
>
> --- On Wed, 9/12/09, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: snap: dream life
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Received: Wednesday, 9 December, 2009, 7:36 AM
>
> Dream Life
>
> I dreamed I was a connoisseur -
> like Berenson whose life
> I'm reading - in my villa
>
> above the Arno and Florence,
> ensconced amongst my
> favourites, pictures
>
> and people. All morning
> I write slowly minute accounts
> of misattributed
>
> minor Old Masters,
> consult with my chef
> and cellar-master.
>
> Afternoons I stroll
> with young mistresses
> under aromatic arbours
>
> that my gardeners year by year
> are bringing to perfection.
> We dine by candlelight,
>
> my musicians play
> Scarlatti and J.S.Bach,
> never too insistently.
>
> All this funded,
> as is well known,
> by grateful collectors,
>
> whose mistakes are fewer,
> their private galleries
> fuller and prouder
>
> under my unique advice.
> Why then do I feel bitter?
> I started poor, now am...better-off.
>
> Their money is old and safe,
> mine hard-won, from long
> painful journeys, fierce
>
> concentration over
> paintings by several
> hands, long-neglected,
>
> badly restored, owned
> by misers and philistines.
> After wily bargaining,
>
> their treasures have been
> secured for better carers in
> Boston and Manhattan.
>
> In my refuge, beauty is
> the preserve of the beautiful,
> my wife, my friends,
>
> our conversation
> under my benign control
> is all refinement.
>
> Why then is there tittering
> in the servants' quarters,
> my chauffeur so grim and reckless?
>
>
> Max Richards
> far from Florence
>
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