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Senior Lidia Salamurova, as well freshmen Cathy Chen, Kenan Stern and Kate Greer led the women's squad...
Senior Lidia Salamurova, as well freshmen Cathy Chen, Kenan Stern and Kate Greer led the women's squad...
Famous in Britain for blasting her critics and carefully tending her media image, Greer proves to be self-mocking and strikingly unselfconscious as she sits in the living room of her Essex farmhouse, with gardens, orchards, geese and pets outside. Complimented on the book, she begins rubbing her hands together and singing a song, a la Cream, whose lyrics consist entirely of, "I'm glad, I'm glad, yes I'm glad." She swerves from topic to topic, discussing her sister's flair for botany and home decor, spilling intimate details about one of her 13 godchildren, confessing that...
Could it be Greer herself: a woman who has, in many ways, devoted herself to the life of the mind, unhindered by family? She teaches at Warwick University and produces scholarly studies on obscure women poets, whose work she publishes with her own Stump Cross Press. But Greer says the whole woman does not exist, and is not she. There's that little matter of waiting by the phone, for starters. "I still, ah, I make myself sick," she admits. "I will flirt, I will--bleccccch--do all of that s__, it's amazing...
Best not to know this about Greer, perhaps, and better to read her book for its flashes of light on a perpetually murky subject. And best too to let Greer have the last word, since she will no doubt seize it anyway. "I don't want to tell people to do anything," she says. "I have put down what makes my heart ache, and either it will be helpful to people...