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He thinks it out one nightHe can be genuinely...
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He thinks it out one nightHe can be genuinely indifferent to the Brattle Hall thing because it is the Class AA minor league affair which all his training on the green lawns, at the dancing school, or riding at night in convertibles on the highways back of Cholive-oil, has satisfiedIt is for the others, the salon men, to be tortured and attracted by the extra quotient of wealth, the elaboration of social fences
And about Spain he knows he is never seriousThat war is in its last spring, and there is nothing in himself he wants to satisfy by going there, no over-all understanding or compassion which he cares to satisfyThe graduation and class week is upon him, and he is cool and friendly to his parents, bored with them too
What are you gonna do, Bob, don't you want any help? Bill Hearn asks
No, I'm going to head for New York, Ellison's father promised me a job there
This is prada knock offs quite a place, Bob, Bill Hearn says
Yes, a funny four yearsAnd inside himself he is strainingGo away, leave me aloneOnly he has learned not to say that out loud any longer
For his thesis he has been given a magna: A Study of the Cosmic Urge in Herman Melville
He functions easily through the next two years, sees himself consciously, amusedly as The Young Man in New YorkHe is first a reader and then a junior editor at Ellison and Co Harvard, New York Extension, as he terms it, and a room and kitchenette in the East SixtiesOh, I'm just a literary con man, he will say
I can't tell you how I've slaved over the thing, the lady historical novelist says to himI was so worried about the motivations of Julia, such an elusive bitch, but I think I achieved the effect I hungered for in her, the one who worries me, however, is Randall Clandeborn
Yes, Miss Helledell, two more of the omega ladies watch same, waiterHe lights a cigarette, revolving slowly in the leather arc of their round boothYou were saying, Miss Helledell?
Do you think Randall comes across?
Randall Clandeborn, mmm(Now which one was he?) Ay, yes, I think he's successful on the whole, but perhaps you need a little sharper definition on himWe can discuss that when we get back to the office(After the drinks he will have a headache To be frank, Miss Helledell, I'm not really worried about your characters, I know they'll come across
Do you think so, MrHearn? Your opinion means an awful lot to me
Oh, yes, it's a very successful job
And George Andrew Johannesson, how is he?
Well, to tell you the truth, Miss Helledell, I should prefer to discuss it when we've got the manuscript between usI remember the characters perfectly but I'm awfully bad on namesIt's one of my faults for which you'll have to forgive me
And chloe handbag lookalike there is always the game of mentally plucking, one by one, all the feathers in her hat
Or the young serious novelist, not quite good enough, he has decidedGodfrey, I think you've got a damn good book there and it's a damn shame that publishing exigencies being what they are, this is not quite the season, perhaps in thirty-six, it would have been a classic if it had come out in the twenties, George, for example, liked it a hell of a lot
Yeah, I understand, but still it seems to me you could take a chance, after all, that crap you put out, I understand, bread and butter, but a serious book is a publisher's only excuse for being
Sure, it's a damn shameSipping his drink mournfullyYou know if you intend to do another book we're awfully interested in it
The weekends in the summer:
You have to talk to Carnes, what a delicious humorI don't mean he's quaint or anything like louis vuitton wallets that, he's a man in his own right of course that's perfectly apparent, but as a gardener he's a findEven the natives consider him one apart, with that Lancashire accent of his -- If i' twere rainin' soup, there Ay'd be stahndin' with a fork in me hand, his hostess says, putting down her drink
And across the porch the gossip is easily overheardI can't tell you what a bitch she is, the woman is incredibleWhen she went out on tour she hand-picked her leading man, purely by the genital heft, so to speak, and when he started fooling around with poor little Judy, damn if Beroma didn't give a party to which she invited everyone but little Judy and the corpus delicti
In the office in the middle of the afternoon: He's coming up today, Hearn, he would, we're all invitedEllison has suggested that our attendance is requested
Get up near him when he's had five or sixHe says the most amazing gucci g watch th
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