octipus rex 6

(From Martin's Journal)

i spent most of the evening painting "landscapes" on the thirteenth floor of the hotel nicholas. i have an exhibit set up at the botanical gardens in são paulo. i also painted a portrait of herbert that i shall present to him tomorrow for his birthday, which is next monday.
for lunch i ate some lizard and frog soup and drank a cocktail made from cactus and fig juices. vaclav joined me for this meal, which made me happy, otherwise i would have been lonely. after we finished eating vaclav recited "if i told him, a completed portrait of picasso" by gertrude stein. which served as an inspiration for a cubistic painting of joy's castle.
i hid the painting of herbert in vaclav's room.
i am looking forward to the trip to são paulo, sometimes herrbert and i need to spend time away from each other, i wish that he could understand this. i am going to have to insist that portuguese be the only language spoken in this room this week.
andre-richard was the first to get home from work. the first thing that he did was to change from a violet and orange flannel shirt and red bib overalls into lime-green sandals, lemon-yellow jock strap and tomato-red vest which reached to his feet. the "p.s.k." was in the traditional spot, of course. he says that he rushes home so that he can change from his "mundane clothes" into his "normal clothes."
joy came in, smoked a cat-nip cigarette and fell asleep at the edge of the forest.
herbert, as usual, got back at 15:17. i wish that he would not be so obsessive about promptness. i am tempted to hide his watch, but he would probably have a heart attack. i remember one day he got very very upset because he got home at 15:18.
albert came by to tell us that he was going to be leaving soon for the the south of france. he was planning to spend the summer in juan-les-pins with several excursions to ventimiglia. he said he was going to take plenty of suntan lotion.
francesca brought a wonderful gift for herbert. she had made liqueurs from cactus juice and fig juice. she brought the gift today, because she is planning on spending next week reading and sitting on an egg.
after dinner we listened to an opera with vaclav as we drank tea and ate grapes.
boa noite.