The fact that Clark liked Fry so much and edited his posthumous Last Lectures makes me like him. (This book was the last one my dear father was reading. ) Even without that personal fact the fact he liked whisky and women appealing and was an all around "regular guy." I also identify with his his irritable aloofness.

Secrest really seems to despise Berenson, always calling him The Great Man. We all know he and Duveen were 30% con artists but they provided entertainment for the rich and that is what the middle class arriviste does au fond ( Capote : "the lapdog of rich heterosexuals.")