02 October 2004

One Good Fuck

[He] was a complicated, acerbic, and contradictory man, with a wry sense of humor and a schoolboy's taste for pranks and practical jokes; he loved making a mystery of his life, and he kept the three different aspects of his identity—the writer, the public figure, and the private man—separate and distinct.
So that's where I get it from.         Actually these are Michael Korda's words in describing Graham Greene, from a reprinted article in The New Yorker.   It's a good, interesting read.   I suppose that's one of the benefits of the new volume of the Sherry biography: there's Greene material aplenty right now, some of it even worthwhile.   Shock!

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