ABSTRACT
December 1992: Today I got a video tape about Hans Sahl, my beloved friend of more than fifty years. On the cover is a picture of his face as he looks now. But it’s not just a face – it’s a landscape. This landscape wears a jaunty cap and horn-rimmed glasses and his trademark: a fire-red scarf, not unlike the one Aristide Bruant wears in the portrait by Toulouse-Lautrec. The photo is black and white, but I know that the scarf is fire-red, because it had been mine before he borrowed it and then could not give it back.
