Since when were you two talking to each other again? (With apparent civility, I mean.)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Doug Henwood</b> <<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">
dhenwood@panix.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">[Lou Proyect - from whom I first got this quote years ago - just sent
<br>me the original. Here it is.]<br><br>"Among the crude Titans was Henry Kissinger. In the next few days he<br>and I attended a half-dozen functions together. I have no idea what<br>he was doing memorializing the American Academy; but the people who
<br>give money for such causes have made something of a pet of him,<br>rather as they had made of Truman Capote in an earlier time. Although<br>Kissinger and I were careful to keep some distance apart, I could<br>hear the ceaseless rumbling voice in every corner of the chapel. The
<br>German accent is more pronounced in Europe than on television at<br>home. He has a brother who came to America when he did. Recently, the<br>brother was asked why he had no German accent but Henry did.<br>'Because,' said the brother, 'Henry never listens.' As I left him
<br>gazing thoughtfully at the hell section of The Last Judgment (as<br>pretty and bright now as Tiepolo), I said to the lady with me, 'Look,<br>he's apartment hunting.'<br><br>(From "Palimpest")<br><br>___________________________________
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