JANUARY Poem by Michelle Grangaud

January 1
*Valery Larbaud, as he writes, wonders why he is writing, and gives himself the answer that
it is only to begin the year with writing.
*George Eliot begins a new novel, Romola.
*Paul Klee draws a foot from the life and believes it is his best foot.
*Alexis Saint-Léger gives Marie Laurencin the liminal song of Anabase in a horse's skull he brought
back with him from the Gobi Desert, in which he had been lost.

January 2
*The day before he leaves for New York, Emmanuel Hocquard types a poem by George Oppen
on his Underwood Standard Typewriter No.3.
*Monsieur Charpentier, Academician, visits Monsieur Colbert on behalf of the French Academy
to thank him for supplying the latter with the jettons which enable it to vote.
*On the London train, G.H. Lewes asks a travelling companion to lend him the Times, and discovers
a highly favourable review of Scenes of Clerical Life 'by Mr. George Eliot, a name
unknown to us'.