taking a horticulture

    I was doing my Salvation Army rant the other day
    on Heming-L - to a reluctant audience - about
    the way drink had destroyed Ernie. A bloke
    (who normally takes as much pleasure putting me down
    as I do him) was for once compelled to concur.
    He had just finished Edmund Wilson's reminiscences
    of Dorothy Parker.

    I recalled the recent commendations on this list
    of Jennifer Jason Leigh's Mrs Parker & wondered
    if her presentation (which I didn't see) bore any similarity
    to Wilson's.

    Here is what my chum wrote:

        ''Have just read an account of Dorothy Parker macerating
        herself with Tuberose to overdrench the stink of booze
        at midday on her person. Tuberose was a particularly cloying
        perfume or body varnish made by Cyclax of London and was
        beloved by small town undertakers after they had blotched
        the job completely. A not suprising result of their own adhesion
        to the gargle in rural Ireland and elsewhere in the isles.

        The stuff is so strong, as Edmund Wilson avers, that shaking
        hands with DP resulted in the greeter's hand smelling all day.
        A great anaphrodisiac as Bunny notes because Parker was
        very pretty in the early 20's. And Wilson hard up for a girl.''

    Scottie B.

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