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...version of the medieval story of Eliduc. Fowles says he intended these as a series of "variations" on related themes; he leaves the reader to make the connections. In the title story, a young English artist and art critic named David Williams visits an old expatriate English painter, Henry Breasley, in his rural French farmhouse. Breasley, living with an old French couple and two young English birds, gets drunk, rants against Picasso and the century's other departures from the world as the eye sees it. Williams, whose wife has stayed behind, almost seduces one of Breasley's "gels...
...richest horse race, run over Longchamps' egg-shaped 1½-mi. grass course. Finishing a dismal tenth was the U.S. Cinderella horse Carry Back, given what Owner Jack Price and other observers (including ex-Jockey Eddie Arcaro) called a "stupid" ride by Australia's Scobie Breasley. "Two hours before post time, Breasley was still in the dining room, having a hearty lunch and sipping champagne," said Price angrily. "At the eighth pole-where ,Carry Back usually makes his best run-it looked like Breasley's efforts at the luncheon table were beginning to tell. He stopped riding...
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