Gus clearly wanted to listen.
Not to talk. Not unusual
for an officer in uniform in the Spring of 1944.
"I went on a pilgrimage to Italy,
late one Summer before I was married," I said.
"I went to see Il Duomo in Florence,
Giotto's frescoes in Padua,
and, because for me,
the many-paneled composition was significant,
I went to see what remained
of Duccio's La Maestà,
the alter he painted for the Cathedral at Siena."

[ Paths of Memory and Painting]
[when the foreground meets the background]