Fabian Perez Full Moon Empty Heart painting

Fabian Perez Full Moon Empty Heart paintingFabian Perez For a Better Life III painting
furthermore—" He looked scornfully about him, at the glitter and chrome, at the terrace by the pool where Japanese lanterns hung like a grove of pastel moons, and a girl's shrill and empty laugh uncoiled as bright as tinsel through the sluggish coastal dusk. It was a silent moment in a night sprinkled with a dusty multitude of Southern stars, and the distant bleating saxophone seemed indecisive and sad, like the nation and the suffocating summer, neither at peace nor at war. "Furthermore, it's degrading to come out of the field each day and then be forced to go to a night club like this, when all you want to do isyour wife and family. Goddam, man, I've gotta get out!"
But underneath his rebellion, Culver finally knew, Mannix—like all of them—was really resigned. Born into a generation of conformists, even Mannix (so Culver sensed) was aware that his gestures were not symbolic, but individual, therefore hopeless, maybe even absurd, and that he was trapped like all of them in a predicament which one