Some notes:
- finding political pamphlets in Chicago
- girls inviting her to their church
- electricity
- "this cat"
- Lessing and how the artist should depict the moment before the ultimate point of the action
- painting as the paradigm for all the visual arts
- Paris: plagiarism. she'd made him promise her the typewriter when she finished typing the book. And then she did something unexpected: she left a note explaining that she'd fixed the offending pages, and the took the typewriter, lest he renege on the deal -- carried it down the five flights of walk up terrified that she might meet him on the way. She took the typewriter back to Massachusetts with her. It was the first of three furtive departures.
She had this inky fire curled up inside her waiting to unfurl like a stop-motion blossom from ninth-grade science filmstrips.