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...Virginia Woolf once divided writers into two categories: those she would have liked to have dinner with, and those with whom she would have preferred not to. Now that Christopher Skes has written what will remain for the foreseeable future the definitive biography of Evelyn Waugh, it is clear that Waugh falls into the disinvited category. The man was a social sadist; he drove a war cripple into psychoanalysis in the course of a single weekend by verbal brutalization. Waugh knew it himself. "Without supernatural aid," he said, "I would hardly be a human being...
Kush's attorney is Bob Woolf, who has slapped together multi-million contracts for diverse sporting bonus babies. Woolf said that of all the deals he has helped put together, the Eagles' offer to Kush was "undoubtedly the most unusual with the most potential...
...though Ottoline remained with her husband. She was the inspiration for the character of Hermione Roddice in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, the eccentric baronness whose passion for the hero, Birkin, is more a contest of will than a deep emotion. She knew them all: Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, J.M. Keynes, Aldous Huxley, Henry Lamb, William Butler Yeats, Henry James...
...Virginia Woolf described Ottoline as "a Spanish galleon, hung with golden coins and lovely silken sails." Other writers, Darroch says, described her variously as "an oversized Infanta of Spain, an enormous bird, a lion-hunting hostess." In Those Barren Leaves, Aldous Huxley described those moments, just before retiring, when the Ottoline-like character would turn to her house guest and ask probing, intimate questions. "For on the threshold of her bed-chamber she would halt," he says, "desperately renewing the conversation with whichever of her guests happened to light her upstairs. Who knew? Perhaps in these last five minutes...
...going through one of these cataclysms when Leonard Woolf decided that he wanted to marry her. It was one of several stern tests of his devotion. Leonard was a fringe Bloomsburyite, in Virginia's words "a penniless Jew," a former Colonial Service officer in Ceylon whose years in the jungle seemed to have purged him of the dilettantism that tainted her other admirers. She warned him that she was not physically attracted to him ("There are moments - when you kissed me the other day was one - when I feel no more than a rock"), but she realized that...