Companions of the Day and Night

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The above extract from a Folk Song from Puerto Rico was found amongst the Fool’s papers. It was accompanied by the following.

NOTE: In certain parts of Mexico people begin celebrating nine days before Easter and Christmas. As day turns to night the people gather in the square. Then they go from house to house in a long procession. The ceremony is called the Posada. They carry lighted candles.

It was I should think just under a year after Black Marsden left that I received a number of paintings and sculptures from him which were entitled the “Idiot Nameless Collection”. These were accompanied by voluminous papers and diaries.

I found as I began to study and work on a translation of these into a novel that they were a chronicle of inner and outer treasures — as though the paintings and sculptures to which the writings related were doorways through which Idiot Nameless moved.

They spoke of a hidden nunnery and of some of the nuns who fled to Europe and North America after the revolution in Mexico early in this century. They spoke of the Fool’s arrival in Mexico, of the preparations to go there in which he had been steeped over a great many years condensed into an autumn, winter, spring before the “Easter of man”.

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