A Quarterly of Criticism and Review i^^^^^^^^fcEjfc $15

At the Picasso Museumonce I joined a group of peoplegazing at some blown-up black and whitephotos of Picasso at Antibes.In one of them he stared straight backhis torso bared, seated on a stool or chairin skintight trunks with legs agape(his nails are painted, someone whispered,awestruck), the image of a fertile god:Priapus offering his gibbous crotchlike a ripe mango on a plate, a sliceof shade along one nether edgeyou knew you could see upif only you could get the right angle.69