![]() ![]() He rode a bicycle with such confident pleasure, he leapt over tennis nets, and in one particularly memorable scene he joined Lucy's brother Freddy and the family vicar Mr Beebe as they cavorted joyously, nakedly in a lake on a hot day. He was forever climbing trees, or walking back to the Pensione Bertolini in the rain. Part of it lay in his approach to life, in his embracing of the "eternal 'Yes'" - in his fondness for painting Thoreau quotations on wardrobe doors and question marks on picture frames, as well as for climbing up into the trees and shouting at the sky: "BEAUTY! JOY!" until he falls from the branches.īut it lay in his easy physicality too. ![]() There was lust in there, certainly - how not to blush before a man so startlingly handsome and so given to passionate kissing amid Italian fields? But there was another kind of desire in me, too. ![]()
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