Chapter 06: Intuition

Leaving High Watch Farm, he returns to DC, where starts a film editing business. He meets a new girlfriend, Margo, Together they explore vegetarianism, Yoga, and playing Free Jazz. With money from film editing, they decide to travel through Europe. Before leaving, they visit his father in Connecticut. They backpack through Europe and North Africa, finishing up with a visit to the site of the Cumaean Sibyl near Naples, Italy, at which point, he tells Margo he wants to go to Paris to play jazz. Margo returns to the states. In Paris, he takes lessons with saxophonist Steve Lacy. Unable to master the lessons, he meets a girl in a bookstore, who gives him a copy of The Secret of the Golden Flower.