"The manuscript of Roland Penrose’s narrative poem The Road Is Wider Than Long is an artist’s book, beautifully calligraphed with a style that reflects the changing mood of the poem and illustrated with his own photographs and collage. He had it bound in covers made of strong brown shoe leather, perhaps symbolic of durable protection. It is the chronicle of a shared journey and his gentle expression of his obsessive love for the woman of his dreams. ... The 'Lee' he refers to is Lee Miller who Roland had met in June 1937 at a wild Surrealist fancy dress party held by the daughters of the Rochas couturiers in their home while their parents were away. The party ended abruptly due to the unexpected return of Mons. et Mme Rochas who threw everyone out in the street, but Max Ernst with whom Roland had gone to the party knew the beautiful American woman who on that brief encounter had delivered to Roland what he later described as a bolt of lightning."
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