southern returned to europe with kauffman in october 1956, stopping off in paris before settling in geneva, switzerland, where they lived until 1959. kauffman took a job with unesco, which supported them as southern continued to write. the years in geneva were a very productive period during which he prepared "flash and filigree" for publication, and worked on "candy" and "the magic christian" as well as tv scripts and short stories. the couple made trips to paris, where they visited mason hoffenberg, allen ginsberg, and william s. burroughs, and to london, where southern met henry green and kenneth tynan.