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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s

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66. transition from the material of a low altitude to a higher one, however, than is found in most instances. Some painters of today come west, and bring with them their usual eastern attention and perception. They do not discern and differentiate between localities, They approach the unknown subject in an habitual manner, with a complete disregard and lack of feeling of this entirely unlike atmosphere to which they have been accustomed. The newness and departure from inveterate materials should stimulate a fresh procedure - a wide deviation from the ordinary - but strangely enough, it doesn't always have this desirable affect. It was about this time of my life that I began to blossom out - off and on - with those huge hives which are so thoroughly disconcerting. With these my eyes were swollen shut; the ears would be rigid and stiff; the whole face might even feel frozen; and the body become lumped with a generous distribution of immense itchy bumps. These swellings with the accompanying insufferable irritation receded only after about a twenty-four hour interval. Somehow I can't seem to remember whether these first cases of big hives were associated with abdominal pains or not, but I am rather inclined to think from extenuating evidence that the first time or two at least, there were none. When I first

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66. transition from the material of a low altitude to a higher one, however, than is found in most instances. Some painters of today come west, and bring with them their usual eastern attention and perception. They do not discern and differentiate between localities, They approach the unknown subject in an habitual manner, with a complete disregard and lack of feeling of this entirely unlike atmosphere to which they have been accustomed. The newness and departure from inveterate materials should stimulate a fresh procedure - a wide deviation from the ordinary - but strangely enough, it doesn't always have this desirable affect. It was about this time of my life that I began to blossom out - off and on - with those huge hives which are so thoroughly disconcerting. With these my eyes were swollen shut; the ears would be rigid and stiff; the whole face might even feel frozen; and the body become lumped with a generous distribution of immense itchy bumps. These swellings with the accompanying insufferable irritation receded only after about a twenty-four hour interval. Somehow I can't seem to remember whether these first cases of big hives were associated with abdominal pains or not, but I am rather inclined to think from extenuating evidence that the first time or two at least, there were none. When I first