Re: damned elusive Pimpernel -Reply
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:26:32 -0500
> I
> suppose we all are aware that the character of Dill was modeled after Capote.
I've known this for years, yet I've always been astonished at the idea of
Truman Capote as anything except the caricature of his later years. And to
think of him emerging as Dill is somehow delightful.
> Could Lee and JDS have been at any of the same coctail parties? Does anyone
> know anymore about Lee?
Lord knows about cocktail parties in those days.
But I bought a first edition of her novel from a fellow at a flea market a
couple of years ago, and he offered to tell me exactly where in her
neighborhood I could catch her when she was out running errands, and the
best time to catch her, if I wanted my copy of the book signed! I demurred
politely. Not only because of the harrassment factor, but I don't have an
idea of what she looks like, and for all I know I might end up chasing
Bessie Glass, with my fountain pen in one hand and my copy of the book in
the other! (Followed, no doubt, by Franny [protecting her mother] and
Bloomberg [protecting Franny].) Who needs indigestion of that sort??
--tim