![]() ![]() "You didn't have to be a priest or monk." "Yes, popular mysticism, late Middle Ages, that anyone could know God." This was of course 1964, the time of the flower children, marijuana, Bob Dylan seeming to be singing all the time about ethics and charity, and I wanted a new Brethren of the Common Life, one in tune with modern sexual values. But I got it mixed up in my head when I was seventeen that I was going to start a new religion, a cult¡ªfree love, give to the poor, raise one's hand against no one, you know, a sort of fornicating Amish community. "What was this Wynken de Wilde all about?" I mean my lifelong passion¡ªaside from Dora¡ªhas been Wynken de Wilde, but if you don't care about him after this conversation, no one will. ![]() "And I'll tell you right now, Wynken de Wilde amounts to nothing, absolutely nothing, except a dream I had once, a very perverse plan. But Wynken de Wilde, that started with Old Captain and the antiques he sold through the Quarter, usually small, portable things. My mother had sent me to Andover, then brought me home, couldn't live without me I went to Jesuit, I didn't belong with anyone or anywhere, and maybe Old Captain was the perfect person. THE POINT is, Old Captain was a smuggler, a collector. ![]()
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