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.Wyatt chuckled a couple of times.Once he looked up and said, "Phil must have written this.I can hear him telling it.You're obviously Mr.Fiddlehead.""Why? My red hair and green eyes?""Partly.Let me finish."Phil dead.Phil sleeping with Wyatt.Phil writing "Mr.Fiddlehead." The plane bumped up and down and the FASTEN SEAT BELTS light came on."I don't understand the end.""What's not to understand?""What does it mean?" He started reading from the manuscript."'Thin artistic fingers.Freckles.Fiddy and I were in a dazzle and knew it.He turned out the light again.Blood was rushing into my head, and I hoped I wasn't glowing in the dark.I started to hate him.I felt like blaming him for something that hadn't happened yet.'"I took that manuscript from Wyatt and looked at it.The new sentences he'd read _were_ on the page: words that hadn't been there when I'd originally read the story a few hours before."The story I read ended with the word 'freckles.' These last lines are new since then.""Did Phil ever tell you about Pinsleepe?""Wyatt, did you hear what I said? This story's _grown_ since this morning!""I heard._Do_ you know about Pinsleepe?"I shook my head.The world was too much with me, and how.A week before he died, Phil came to New York.Usually when he came it was an Indianapolis 500 of speeding around to all his favorite places and people.He didn't like the city but he loved what was in it, so his trips were manic, albeit infrequent.He liked his friends to get together: to have big rowdy dinners in restaurants where sensational or peculiar people told long stories that held the table in thrall.The last time was different.He contacted only two people, Danny James and Wyatt Leonard.The rest of his friends and fans -- the rare book dealers, a dinosaur specialist at Columbia, the vegetable chef at Benihana, _me_ --knew nothing of this visit.From what Wyatt and Danny pieced together, he stayed at the Pierre Hotel and spent most of his time traveling in and out of town, destination unknown.Both were surprised when he called and said he was there, shocked when they saw him.Danny thought he looked very ill, Wyatt that he was deranged."You know that crazy look people get when they're caught in a flash photograph? That was Phil's expression the whole time we were together.He was very relaxed and soft-spoken, but his eyes had the hysterical look of someone who's just seen death.Or a glimpse of ourselves in some hideous future situation.We walked around, went out to dinner, and talked for hours, but the look stayed.It scared me.""Did you ask him what was wrong?""Finky Linky wants a drinky.Does Weber want a drinky too? Yes, I asked what was wrong.We were sitting in the Four Seasons eating lobster.He asked if I ever read W.H.Auden.Yes, I read Auden.Then did I know the line, 'We are lived by powers we pretend to understand'? He was taking these incredibly long, slow-motion bites, all very elegant and calm, but his eyes were those of a man about to be shot.W.H.Auden.I said, 'That doesn't answer my question, Phil.What's the matter with you?'"Pinsleepe was the matter.Page 24ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlThere's an old Jewish legend that says before it's born, a child knows all the secrets of the universe.But as it's being born, an angel touches it on the mouth to make it forget.According to Wyatt Leonard, Phil believed before he died he had rediscovered those secrets, but not from within -- from the Angel Pinsleepe."Once he started describing her and what had happened, I couldn't stop him.It was like he'd been waiting for someone to talk to about her."I know about 'Mr.Fiddlehead.' That's where Pinsleepe first showed up.Phil told me he'd had the idea for the story a long time ago and once in a while thought about writing it as a script.When he was in Yugoslavia filming, he began it because he was bored down there.He wrote two pages, but then there was a problem with the Yugoslav authorities or something, so he put the script down and forgot about it."Cut to California, a few months later.He's going through the papers he worked on in Yugoslavia and comes across five pages of a short story entitled'Mr.Fiddlehead.' He remembered writing two pages of a _film script_ with the same name [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]