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7cf7075 "I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored." humor waking-up nathaniel-hawthorne safety sarcasm Jonathan Stroud
28ac147 "she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson..." "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the rival factor being what it is, for a contemporary author, or would-be author, to confess admiration for another. At last I said, "Not Hemingway--a really dishonest man, the closet-everything. Not Thomas Wolfe--all that purple upchuck; of course, he isn't living. Faulkner, sometimes: Light in August. Fitzgerald, sometimes: Diamond as Big as the Ritz, Tender Is the Night. I really like Willa Cather. Have you read My Mortal Enemy?" With no particular expression, she said, "Actually, I wrote it." emily-dickinson henry-james light-in-august nathaniel-hawthorne tender-is-the-night thomas-wolfe william-faulkner willa-cather ernest-hemingway f-scott-fitzgerald Truman Capote
efc45e6 Trying to imagine , who found indecorous, at a London performance of --to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported --who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues. lenny-bruce nathaniel-hawthorne puritanism norms David Markson
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