And so, again, to Nice. We've been here four days this time and will stay till June. To come into these streets is always a kind of homecoming to me. A vivid experience still. I was 23 the first time, an ignorant, naive boy, stepping out into the rest of the world for the first time, and I was instantly dazzled by what I found here--a girl of course, but much much else, places and people, an entire way of life that I had not known existed. Later I worked for the New York Times here, and later still I wrote many books and articles rooted in Nice or in surrounding France. All that is over, I have become strictly a poet now, if I am anything classifiable, it is harder to do and pays nothing, but we still come here twice each year for three months each time, the girl and I, her home town and mine too in a way. Which makes for an expensive and frenetic life style that people, scratching their heads, often ask us about. Are there not problems? Of course there are, each time problems. The money, of course, the jet lag. Also, if you abandon any home for three months there will be technical problems to cope with when you come back. This time we found TV and internet kaput. We were four days without, grumbling the whole time, getting more and more frantic. Guy came this morning. Couldn't have been nicer. Fixed it in a trice. Which is why you are reading these lines now and not four days ago.
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Christian Seger
3/25/2018 03:48:42 pm
Interesting you would comment on your apartment in Nice. In the summer of 1959, almost 60 years ago, you invited me and a pal up to your apartment in Nice for a drink after we had met in Pamplona during the Festival of San Fermin. I wrote you another email today in which I remarked on those days and a memoir I wrote. Glad to see you are well and living such a great life.
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Beer Boudewijn
8/3/2018 07:01:39 am
Hello mr Daley,
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Walter Bernard
10/31/2018 12:37:53 pm
Dear Robert,
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11/27/2018 08:02:27 am
Sorry, I just saw this. I must have such a photo, but God knows where. The NYTimes published many photos of me at that time. They at least have a filing system and could perhaps give you what you're looking for.
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Walter Bernard
1/22/2019 12:25:32 pm
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