Jan. 15th, 2011

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I've been enjoying In Tearing Haste, the letters of Deborah Devonshire* and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Quite aside from driving home the fact that people had much better adventures 60 years ago, though much more gruesome ones in the war years before that, parts of it are simply hilarious. An example from PLF: 'Many thanks for those mystery cornfield photographs [she had sent photos of crop circles]. One of my difficulties about them is: how could visitors from outer space know so much about Art Deco?'


* She writes so well about gardens that I found myself buying this to see if she is as entertaining on other topics. Worth the price for the JFK letters alone.
blamebrampton: 15th century woodcut of a hound (Default)
I've been enjoying In Tearing Haste, the letters of Deborah Devonshire* and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Quite aside from driving home the fact that people had much better adventures 60 years ago, though much more gruesome ones in the war years before that, parts of it are simply hilarious. An example from PLF: 'Many thanks for those mystery cornfield photographs [she had sent photos of crop circles]. One of my difficulties about them is: how could visitors from outer space know so much about Art Deco?'


* She writes so well about gardens that I found myself buying this to see if she is as entertaining on other topics. Worth the price for the JFK letters alone.

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