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CONVERSATIONS WITH WILLIE by Robin Maugham Simon & Schuster; 188 pages...
...short stories had been adapted for television. At his famous Villa Mauresque, he employed one of the best cooks on the Riviera, dined off silver plates and entertained royalty. Yet he was miserable. What was wrong? Everything. Or so this instructive and melancholy memoir by Nephew Robin Maugham would have us believe...
...night drinking with the local planters and lawyers and then repeat their tales to Willie, who would fashion them into stories. When his lover died of tuberculosis in 1944, Maugham was incurably stricken. "For 30 years he had been my chief care, my pleasure, and my anxiety," he told Robin. "Without him I am lost and lonely and hopeless ... I am too old to endure so much grief. I have lived too long...
...Robin notes, he wrote down his Uncle Willie's conversations with full knowledge of their historical value, and there is no reason to doubt his accuracy...
...nature of the round-robin tournament often made it sensible for a team to play for a tie against any opponent that seemed dangerous, and to play for a win -thus committing defensive forces and risking a loss-only against the worst teams. In the typical game, each team fortified its own goal so thoroughly that only thinly manned patrols could be sent forward, and their efforts seemed more reconnaissance than aggression. If the opposing defense dozed off in a body, a goal might be scored, since the individual attackers were superbly skilled, but the likely game result...