I opened the box and began taking things out. In a notebook with brittle
pages I read some words which Gottlieb and Rothko wrote in a letter to
the Times on June 13, 1943.
I had copied their words in the notebook with a fountain pen. When I
read them, I remembered that day and our bedroom which looked out over
the battleships in the Carquinez straits.
"...only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless".