Paul Bowles overlooking Jemaa el-Fnaa, Marrakech. Crowd circles on square listening to groups of drummers. I took train with him from Tangier and stayed a week, July 20-24, 1961 (photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Esate) By the time of this photo, Bowles had lived in Morocco for over 10 years, having first visited in 1931 with Aaron Copeland at Gertrude Stein’s prodding. His best known book, The Sheltering Sky, had been a best seller in 1950. Although he would make frequent visits to the US, Morocco had become his home until his death in 1999. “Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.” - Paul Bowles, the Sheltering Sky #paulbowles #allenginsberg #marrakech #Jemaael-Fnaa #theshelteringsky #ryuichisakamoto #BernardoBertolucci #morocco #letitcomedown #janebowles #gertrudestein #aaroncopeland #writers #literature (at Jemaa El Fna, Marrakech) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKpbZrThd5W/?igshid=1f8j02lx7l3oo
