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Paul and Clay
 
Paul and Clay met during the vaudeville days. They were together for over 40 years. 1n 1975 they lived in a $15 a month garage in San Diego.

   
Paul
Clay
Paul painted portraits of the Founding Fathers,
Jefferson, Adams, and Washington.
Paul studied the biographies of each of his subjects.
He read that Washington had a pock-marked face, the results of small pox.
Paul reciting "Death Takes a Holiday"
Knowing he was the center of attention, Paul exaggerates his situation in life.
Paul also knew Hamlet and Othello by heart.
Paul studies his painting.
I study Paul as he studies his painting.
Intense men do get weary.
Paul sought to paint the Founding Fathers are they appeared.
Clay dreamed of being a theater producer. He had a company - a note book.
Paul's egotism was unrestrained, despite the fact he washed at a Denny's.
He painted Washington's pock-marked face and Jefferson's
muscular legs. His paintings did not look very real.
Success eluded Clay as well as Paul.
Both were, it seemed to me, to be running out of
time and illusion.