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Mr. Romanoff is in the mushroom class.
He is a pharmacist
and takes color slides of the
fungi we find. It was
he who picked up a mushroom I
brought to the first meeting of the
class at the New School,
smelled it, and said,
“Has anyone perfumed this
mushroom?” Lois Long said,
“I don’t think so.” With each
plant Mr. Romanoff’s pleasure is,
as one might say,
like that of a child.
(However, now and then
children come on the field trips
and they don’t show particular
delight over what is found.
They try to attract attention to
themselves.) Mr.
Romanoff said the other day,
“Life is the sum total of all
the little things that happen.”
Mr. Nearing smiled.
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