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1 " A sighting in Texas
On my fourth day in the city
I looked through the window
and saw a dreamlike figure sauntering by.
He had a sack over his arm, and a stick over his shoulder,
and he wore a high-crowned hat and a cloak, I think,
and he strolled past easy, insolent and amused.
My heart leapt to see him.
‘Who was that?’ I cried, rushing to the window,
‘that man with the stick, and the high-crowned hat, and the sack on his arm?’
My hostess returned me reprovingly to our conversation.
‘I saw nobody,’ she sweetly and carefully said.
‘But tell me, have you had time to see our new Picasso in the Fine Arts Museum?
And will you have an opportunity to meet with Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby? "

― Jan Morris , Contact!: A Book of Glimpses