Annotations for Form: Autograph

Would you sign my book?

Oh, with pleasure.

Thank you. Oh, that is you. No?

Of course it's me.

And that's your mother's father?

Yeah.

At the end here?

Yeah. And Sylvia Plachy took this picture.

Well, and before you knew you'd about that.

Yeah. [paging through the book] Do you have a pen?

Yeah.

[paging through the book] Yeah, that's me. Sylvia, at the time, was thinking she would do a picture about middle-aged children and their elderly parents; to do a series for somebody. That never worked out. But all these pictures I now have, are now on my wall. And I took this one.

Where was this taken, the picture?

It was taken at my parents' house in Golden's Bridge. [Turning pages]

When I was writing, Vincent was alive, and he was coming down, stopping by almost every day. But, you know, he had absolutely no interest. I would talk to him about it. He was, cancer is a terrible thing. It made him, it makes everybody, it shrinks everybody into their own skin.