The Doors – Jim Morrison's last notebook,

Doors The Doors – Jim Morrison's last notebook, Paris 1971 together with one of the final photographs taken of him A very rare and important lot – a stenographers spiral bound notebook with 20 pages of handwritten musings, finished and unfinished and reworked poems and lyrics in blue ballpoint pen in the hand of Jim Morrison possibly started prior to his departure from Los Angeles and the majority written during his last days in Paris. Jim Morrison using the alias (part of his name) 'James Douglas' – arrived in Paris in March 1971 to take a break from performing and the concentrate on his writing. His long-time girlfriend Pamela Courson (who used the name Morrison on occasion) had travelled before him and arranged for them to rent the large 19th century apartment in the Fourth Arrondissement of model and starlet Elizabeth Lariviere known as Zozo, where Jim planned to spend his days writing. Jim had a habit of carrying several spiral bound notebooks with him at all times to jot down notes, poems and ideas as they came to him, he took some of these notebooks with him when he went to Paris. Throughout June of 1971, Jim carried a white plastic shopping bag from the 'Samaratine' department store with him wherever he went. It usually contained one or two of his spiral notebooks, some personal photographs, a tape of his 1970 birthday poetry reading, a pack of Marlboros, a lighter a few ballpoint pens and some interviews and articles about The Doors. Jim found it increasingly difficult to write, becoming unsettled, erratic and ultimately ill and resorted to his old ways of drinking hard – on one drunken occasion in June picking up a none too talented pair of buskers and bringing them to a studio, insisting they record with him. Jim felt one rendition of 'Orange County Suite' produced during this ad hoc recording session had produced some interesting results but he did not have the means to listen to his reel to reel recording of it. A few days later he bumped into Zozo's boyfriend, Philippe Dalecky, who had the means to make a cassette from Jim's reel to reel at his home studio in his apartment on the Rue Chalgrin. Having made the tape, Jim keen to listen to it, left in an excited hurry. Dalecky noticed that he had left his plastic bag behind – he ran after him shouting that he had forgotten it to which Jim, now half way down the block, shouted back "All right…keep it…see you later…bye!" The next day Dalecky travelled to Saint Tropez with Zozo. He would never see Jim again. The hazy circumstances of his untimely death are well documented. Stephen Davis, author of "The Last Days of Jim Morrison" has studied the notebook in some depth. The contents of Jim's last notebook are "full of stanzas and imagery-it represents a confident and finished sequence of poems". "Several pages are variants of older poems, such as 'The Ancient Ones', 'Winter Photography' and 'The Hitchhiker'. Other pages contain only one or two lines, but variations in the writing style indicate they may have been thought over for days. The notebook contains both wonderful new poems and scabrous jottings: "JERK-BAIT SCROTUM, INC." The profanities Fk St Ps Ct. A previously unknown poem "Impossible Garden", refers to a "beautiful savage like me" and "the most insane whore in Christendom". A new song lyric "Now You Are In Danger" seems to sum up Jim's Paris idyll: "Let the piper call the tune / March, May, April, June". The next page contains short lyrics for a blues song: "We're two of a kind / We're two of a kind / You want yours, and I want mine". Page 17: contains one line "She'll get over it". Page 18: "What can I say? What can I do? I thought you found my sexual affection stimulating". Page 19: "UMHN / Glorious sexual Cool / I'm finally dead." Page 20: "In that year we were blessed / By a great visitation of energy." Sold with a colour Polaroid photograph of Morrison taken during his time in Paris. The ghostly shot captures him staring out of the window of the apartment where he would eventually die and is believed to be one of the last photographs taken of him. The lot is also accompanied by a DVD copy of "The Doors: 30 Years Commemorative Edition." (2)REFERENCE: Davis, Stephen "The Life and Death of Jim Morrison", 2004. Contact the Fame Bureau to BUY this item