Cummings' Enormous Room Images

Some of Cummings' sketches from the Liveright "Typescript" edtion of The Enormous Room (1978). Page numbers are keyed to the Penguin edition. 

B asleep


The Skipper (103)

Judas (75-76)

The Silent Man
(75; 141)

Count Bragard (55-57; 154-158) and the Spanish Whoremaster (146; 154-158)

The Machine Fixer (103-108)


Jan (74-75)

The Wanderer (76-77; 164-174)

The Young Skipper (139-141)

The Zulu (144-145; 175-191)

Clockwise from the top left: The Fighting Sheeney ("The Henchman"--146-154), M. Pet-airs (75, 174-175), The Zulu (144-145; 175-191), and Rockyfeller ("The Millionaire" --146-152)

Jean le Negre (204-222) 

The Hat (160-161)


Pete writes a letter for Jean (209)



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