Monsieur Arno

photo: Francis Levy

Everyone has their Arno, in fact their own private subjective view of everything! Isn't that what makes life living? Perhaps not. Even that homily goes in the crapper along with “we aim to please…”--your Seine, your Nile and even your mythic Euphrates (the longest river in Western Asia, running 1740 miles through Turkey, Syria and Iraq, joining the Tigris to Shatt al-Arab before flowing out into the Persian gulf). In the days of Cartier-Bresson, there were the green bookstalls along the Seine and the lovers—who are also a construction of past imaginings. Ecco! Ecce Homo, voila!

read "Boudu Saved From Drowning" by Francis Levy (with a painting by Hallie Cohen) in The East Hampton Star