First published in the Kenyon Review, 22.2 (Spring, 1960). Collected in Slow Learner (1984).
Featuring Henry Miller, Modest Mussorgsky, Lincoln, Sarah Vaughan, Rousseau, Henry Adams, Earl Bostic, Pavlov, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Rudolf Clausius, Ludwig Boltzmann, Machiavelli, Sade, William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, Stravinsky, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker.
Excuse the inconsistent accents.