Subject: beauty unveiled
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 01:54:05 EST
The essential insouciance of Camille's style, the rhythm
& length of her sentences, her vocabulary, her taste in layout,
her 'easy' way with typos - as well as the actual texture
of her writing are all quite different from Louise's.
You would have to be tone deaf to mistake one for
the other - or Camille herself a professional counterfeiter
(for which profession she never showed any inclination.)
This is, anyhow, quite irrelevant since I know all about
Louise - or at least about her family.
I have the happiest & most poignant memories of tender
moments with her grandmother many, many years ago
in rural Buckinghamshire. (Louise's recent remark about
being 'towed away by the SS Scottie Bowman' is a long
standing Brooke's family joke.)
This beautiful girl was the granddaughter of Sir Max Beerbohm,
the marvellous English essayist, cartoonist & satirist.
And, of course, the 'Z' in Louise's name is not a ham-handed
Australian attempt to imitate the popular idea of an American
monniker. It stands, quite simply, for 'Zuleika' - the first name
of Miss Dobson, her great, great, grandfather's most memorable
creation.
Scottie B.
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