The Water and the Wine by Tamar Hodes

Author:Tamar Hodes [Hodes, Tamar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780995623552
Publisher: Bookline & Thinker
Published: 2018-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

Leonard was staying at the Chelsea Hotel in New York: the rooms were bright and large as if sending him a message of hope. The foyer gleamed with marble and mirrors, the silver and the white trying to outshine each other. He was sleeping well, had put on some weight and was feeling healthy. He was pleased that his work, at last, was being recognised.

He wrote to Marianne:

My dear Marianne,

I am so sorry to hear about your grandmother. As we say in Judaism, I wish you long life.

And it is a life that I wish to share with you. I miss you so.

A peach eaten without you lacks flavour.. A rainbow seen without you is grey. A sea dipped in without you is dry.

You would love the Chelsea Hotel. The family who own it are the Bard family. Originally Jewish refugees. How can I not write with that name here? I hope someday that you will see it. Twelve storeys high, red brick, with black railings, it has something Gothic about it, like something out of Edgar Allan Poe. There is a staircase which rises all the way to the top. To be here is humbling as I am so aware of all the great people who have stayed here before: Janis Joplin, Andy Warhol, Arthur Miller are just some. Dylan Thomas even drank himself to death here.

The tour is going well. I have met Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and they are helpful. I played some songs to Judy Collins and she said that she would back me. While we have been living on that Greek rock, music has exploded. People seem to like the poetry and the songs. I have been booked for some festivals. All of this makes me want to write more. I am torn constantly between paper and the guitar.

Send my love to that sweet boy of yours. I am sure that Kyria Sophia will keep our house warm.

I dream of being with you in our Aegean shuttered home and making love day and night with you. That is what sustains me.

Your loving, Leonard.

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