I 'dug out' the old Agfascope200 from the basement...for a current project.....Within it, was stuck..crooked in the carrier....a 1965 'color transparency' of my first 'boyfriend', Lex, with his Sebastian Flyte stuffed animal......a gentle Praxitelian picture of perfection, then.....beneath his soft beauty...there was an egghead philosopher/poet, Greek-style wrestler, French-style fencer, and Theater Set lighting designer, who eventually majored in theoretical mathematics, and, later, while in Atlanta....gained a PhD in Radar System Design at Ga. Tech....Who'd a thought it!.....When this photo was taken, he was a Rimbaud scholar and poet!....thus, our 'connection'.....I wrote a book about my relationship with him.....and sent the only copy to him in late 1968.....He made scotch-taped modifications in the manuscript and, later, sent it back to me....from Washington State......having joined the Navy, he had become 'another person', having lost his interest in symbolist poetry and his 'God', Arthur Rimbaud...... Overwhelmed by his emotions, he shifted to the study of Radar Algorithms and 'Numbers' Science, theoretical mathematics and more 'sciency' stuff!.....He is still the 'great enigma' of my Youth.......Sooo many memories surface from a 1" x 1.5" slide, stuck in an old 'viewer'!
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