After the poetry reading, Renè [Bob’s father] took Bob to Gurdjieff’s home at Fontainebleau-Avon and there he was introduced to T.S. Eliot. Bob would hear Eliot say to Gurdjieff only fifteen minutes later: “You have to consider that any esoteric occult ritual is today socially acted out by the daily publishing and consuming of newspapers.” But an image distracted Bob–a beautiful blonde woman stood over a street grating with her dress billowing. A movie marquee above spelled out SOME LIKE IT HOT.
