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In a message dated 17/04/2010 18:15:17 GMT Daylight Time,
chaiselongue@EARTHLINK.NET writes:
although I know Dmitri and Brian Boyd like to harp on VN's virtues,
awareness of a single act of loving-kindness escapes me. Waiting (and this time
hoping) to be proved wrong as usual,
Carolyn Kunin
Into one of his American homes, did not a strange cat (or was it a small
dog?) enter, and VN kindly fed it, or approved of Vera feeding it, and also
allowed it to explore the house? (Recall his saying approvingly that Mr
Bloom speaks charmingly to his cat in the scene in "Ulysses" that VN calls one
of the greatest passages in all literature.)
Also, he was a generous tipper in the Montreux hotel, and the staff were
protective and fond of him.
But no doubt Dmitri and Brian Boyd can supply many more impressive
examples.
Anthony Stadlen
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