The difference between Kenneth Clark's own charming memoirs (I laugh out loud in the train, so relieved to find, if only in print, a fellow spirit) and the biography of Secrest is 1000%. She should cease and desist from writing since she makes outstanding men so petty and mundane, no doubt like herself.
Lucia's Symposium
Lucia casts a wary eye on cultural infelicities, and dissents from all orthodoxies.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004
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