Kurt's close friend and fellow Princetonian Jene La Rue went on to become an Assistant Professor of Classics at State University College at Buffalo, New York at the same time Kurt was an Assistant Professor of Art History at UCLA in the mid-sixties. While at Buffalo, Jene wrote a lengthy paper entitled "The Meanings of Mythology" (to read it, CLICK HERE) which both reiterated many of Kurt's interests, and also prompted Kurt's own reflections on the subject, which he shared with Jene later on in the early seventies in this commentary. Kurt and Jene, together with Jene's childhood friend Tom Genelli, together went on to create and operate The Diamond Sutra Restaurant in San Francisco in 1970. Jene and Kurt remained close friends until Jene's untimely death from cancer.
