Monday, July 07, 2008

Art and life ...

... John Fowles: the French Lieutenant author’s secret woman.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:20 AM

    Apparently, the young woman's "... ambitions to be a concert pianist, actress, or novelist..." didn't work out. Selling intimate letters is a somewhat less exalted occupation, but probably scratches her exhibitionist itch.

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  2. It all sounds rather sad, don't you think. Also, it brings to mind the artist in "The Ebony Tower" - if memory serves, as it may well not in this case. Fowles was a strange dude, as his journals make clear.

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