George’s funeral will take place at the Most Holy Redeemer Church, 173 East Third Street (between Avenues A and B), NYC, on Monday, February 2nd, at 10 a.m. Open to everyone.
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Photograph © John Gian 2008/9
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George playing the harpsichord (handmade by himself)
in San Giovanni D’Asso, May 1 – 2008, h.18.52.
NOTE: February 2nd.
Six inches of snow overnight. I trekked for a couple of hours to the highest spot (Black Cap) nearby; the only colours the tawny fleece of a black-faced sheep, one robin in a hedge, the bright plastic blue of a distant tobogganer. Fewer footprints the higher I climbed. I reached the top and on the small concrete topological benchmark someone earlier had left a tiny snowman, twigs for arms. For no reason I wrote GEORGE in the snow and as I started back down a blizzard began. This time wet snow, the dull light showing an icy sheen. I was thinking of George and slowly it clicked: Schneeman. Snowman. I had my reason.
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