Paul Bowles, Paris, November 12, 1990, a month before the premiere of Bertolucci’s Sheltering Sky, (starring John Malkovitch and Debra Wingerin, & music by Ryuichi Sakamoto)  in which Bowles makes a cameo appearance quoting his famous lines from the book: Â
“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”
photo: Allen Ginsberg. #paulbowles #theshelteringsky #ryuichisakamoto #johnmalkovitch #beatgeneration  #americanwriter  #americancomposer #bernardobertolucci (at Paris, France)
