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Riding's ideas of independence were more daring. Before shipping off to Majorca with Graves, she fell in love with an Irish journalist named Phibbs. The "strange Trinity" (Nancy, Laura and Robert) became a stranger quartet. Even the gallant and scrupulous biographer cannot prevent the arrangement from sounding like a send-up of The Edge of Night. When Phibbs rejected Riding, she swallowed Lysol and jumped from a fourth-story window. A horrified Robert leaped after her, but not before running down to the third floor. Laura sustained fractures of the spine and pelvis. Robert, with the luck of those...
...once giving 17 concerts in London during a three-week period. She carefully cultivated calluses on her fingers and at times kept 65 harps in her Manhattan apartment. Dilling seasoned her recitals with spirited lectures on the harp's history and anecdotes like the one about the stranger who pointed to a harp, said, "Lady, learn me that," and became her most unorthodox and famous student. His name: Harpo Marx...
Bardot recalls her early childhood as the proper jeune fille of an affluent father who once whipped her 50 times. ("I felt like a stranger in my parent's house. That's perhaps why I have had so many houses, houses I have bought myself, to feel at home.") It was Roger Vadim who first saw an international sex symbol in the guise of an ingenue of 15. He became her husband and Svengali. ("I was not used to such handsome men ... I was so shy, a little girl still. I wore white socks and a sophomoric white...
Grok: to understand; originally a Martian word in Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land...
...disheartened, and went on: "This makes you the perfect Stranger forty years later. A Stranger because you are a Jew, a Stranger because you're not a Jew. A Stranger because you believe that you have your place in life, and finding it will be enough. But once you find it, it will make you a Stranger for the rest of humankind. In brief, you are the Stranger who has never been and will never feel the Stranger because, for you, your life is identity and destiny. The world's indifference is, for you, sufficient reason to seek destiny, just...