"This is just to say: I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox, and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me — they were delicious, so sweet and so cold."
[девочка-первокурсница, влюблённая в кебриджского поэта, берёт у него интервью]
She asked rather desperately about influences on his work.
'I hope my taste is catholic enough for there to be no overwhelming influence. I admire certain modern French writers. And certain underestimated Americans. William Carlos Williams.'
He spoke as though she could not possibly heard of, or read, William Carlos Williams.
-- A.S.Byatt, Still Life
аккурат вчера прочитал, и подумал - надо бы посмотреть на этого самого Уильямса
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Date: 2004-02-03 03:23 am (UTC)She asked rather desperately about influences on his work.
'I hope my taste is catholic enough for there to be no overwhelming influence. I admire certain modern French writers. And certain underestimated Americans. William Carlos Williams.'
He spoke as though she could not possibly heard of, or read, William Carlos Williams.
-- A.S.Byatt, Still Life
аккурат вчера прочитал, и подумал - надо бы посмотреть на этого самого Уильямса