tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post1192919177067103661..comments2023-05-04T02:30:43.543-05:00Comments on Reading Proust In Foxborough: Back to BalbecGrapeshot/Odettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11625862990225356412noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36609540.post-61044783292120979122010-10-23T07:09:32.398-05:002010-10-23T07:09:32.398-05:00while searching for a Hammett connection, I found ...while searching for a Hammett connection, I found the information on Harold Pinter's screenplay for 'Remembrance ...'<br /><br />also this nasty moment -<br /><br />"Gertrude had great natural charm, tremendous charisma. Marvelous head. Those wonderful flashing eyes. A deep, firm voice. So I couldn't help but be very much impressed by her at times, except that often she'd erupt with crazy ideas. She thought Hitler was a great man ... this before the war, of course, but how a Jewess could be attracted to such a notion at any time is difficult to understand. She was certainly a woman of strong opinions -- indeed to the point of megalomania. She felt she had influenced everyone. <b>We had a big fight one day when I mentioned I was reading Proust. She said, "How can you read junk like that? Don't you know, J., that Proust and Joyce both copied their work from The Making of Americans?"</b>Ann ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.com