Manny, Spanish Conquistador Picture, Jersey City, NJ

Passmoore, Works Of Alexander & I.V.

After he posed, this noble fellow with whom Alexander fished for many years, treated me to lunch, just because I painted him and he was thankful. "Kitty Kitty" was the name most fisherman called him by; that's the repetitive, pacifying phrase he used to lure snapper blues when jigging golden hooks off the pier. At Last, by Charles Kingsley: "No wonder that the men rose above themselves, for good and for evil; that having, as it seemed to them, found infinitely, they hoped infinitely, and dared infinitely. They were a dumb generation and an unlettered, those old Conquistadores. They did not, as we do now, analyse and describe their own impressions: but they felt them nevertheless; and felt them, it may be, all the more intensely, because they could not utter them; and so went, half intoxicated, by day and night, with the beauty and the wonder round them, till the excitement overpowered alike their reason and their conscience; and, frenzied with superstition and greed, with contempt and hatred of the heathen Indians, and often with mere drink and sunshine, they did deeds which, like all wicked deeds, avenge themselves, and are avenging themselves, from Mexico to Chili, unto this very day." Series Description: IVP's home town from 1980-1995. Related series: Nude Men, Helen Olshansky, Ted Kavanau. -Dedicated to Monty Zucker.