Re: facts and fiction

Good lord, Kim, I can't believe you're going on about the beard thing. :)
Are you Absolutely Certain that Leonard didn't have a beard around the time
of Virginia's death?

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:

> this is the first paragraph of this week's 'new
> yorker" fiction, by the noted author, james salter:
>
> "Walter Such was a translator. He liked to write with
> a green fountain pen that he had a habit of raising in
> the air slightly after each sentence, almost as if his
> hand were a mechanical device. He could recite lines
> of Blok in Russian and then give Rilke's translation
> of them in German, pointing out their beauty. He was a
> sociable but also sometimes prickly man, who stuttered
> a little at first and who lived with his wife in a
> manner they liked. But Marit, his wife, was ill."
>
>
> ahem.
>
> rilke never translated blok.
>
> in 'the hours', the author has virginia woolf recall
> her clean-shaven husband as bearded. and the second
> world war supposedly has just begun (it has been
> raging in london for two years).
>
> shouldn't our esteemed writers get their facts
> straight before they attempt to entrall us with their
> fiction?
>
> kim
>
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Received on Fri Nov 15 12:07:07 2002