From A Moveable Feast I learned that with some people it is better to be an enemy than a friend and rival. The enemy (Wyndham Lewis, for example) is taken out back and shot, the friend and rival (Fitzgerald) is roasted over a slow fire. Others to whom he might have been thought to owe some gratitude (Stein, Ford) get the modified beating up.
Did he mean to publish it, though? One wonders with posthumous works.
From A Moveable Feast I learned that with some people it is better to be an enemy than a friend and rival. The enemy (Wyndham Lewis, for example) is taken out back and shot, the friend and rival (Fitzgerald) is roasted over a slow fire. Others to whom he might have been thought to owe some gratitude (Stein, Ford) get the modified beating up.
ReplyDeleteDid he mean to publish it, though? One wonders with posthumous works.