Word: rampion
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...seems like panels are moving a lot of people off the floor," said Joseph Benson, vice president of Rampion Visual Productions, a multimedia firm that presented at the fair...
...Ernest Hemingway scored in The Sun Also Rises (Harold Loeb, the now-forgotten model for Robert Cohen, was satisfactorily furious, and one of the minor real-life woman characters took to bed for a week). Aldous Huxley did a number on D.H. Lawrence as the brilliantly insufferable crank, Mark Rampion, in Point Counter Point. Political debts have been paid too. One of the first romans à clef, Madeleine de Scudéry's Artamène; ou Le Grand Cyrus (1649), encoded in fiction the court of Louis XIV. H.G. Wells savaged Winston Churchill under the cover of Rupert...
Died. Frieda Emma Johanna Maria von Richthofen Weekley Lawrence Ravagli, 77, earthy, aristocratic mistress (1912-14), wife (1914 until his death in 1930) and muse of British Novelist D.H. (Lady Chatterley's Lover) Lawrence, presumed model for the wife of Mark Rampion, Aldous Huxley's fictional portrait of Lawrence in Point Counter Point, and wife (since 1950) of Angelino Ravagli, Italian painter and ceramist; of a stroke; in Taos...
...made love or deliberately created trouble to avoid it, were about as uniformly unpleasant a set of moral idiots as any author has created. Not until Point Counter Point, published in 1928, did Author Huxley give evidence of his dissatisfaction with his mood of vast, all-embracing negation. In Rampion, obviously modeled on his friend D. H. Lawrence, he created a character who was sincere without being stupid, kind without being weak, and whose insistence on the need for the uninhibited life of the senses was dramatized by the wasted lives of the people around him. In his subsequent satire...
...then the flippant or common things after. Mrs. Garnett says I have no true nobility?with all my cleverness and charm. But that is not true. It is there, in spite of all the littlenesses and commonnesses." Readers of Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point who recognized "Mark Rampion" as a sympathetic portrait of Lawrence may have wondered how Lawrence liked it. He wrote to Huxley: "Your Rampion is the most boring character in the book?a gasbag. Your attempt at intellectual sympathy!?It's all rather disgusting, and I feel like a badger that has its hole...
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