[ilds] My Family, Bitter Lemons and wine

[Denise Tart & David Green]

Charles,

Re: "'It's thirsty work talking like a Norman Douglas character.'"

According to a work 'In Byron's Shadow: Modern Greece in English and 
American Imagination' the quote if from the Count D in Prospero's Cell. It 
is appropriate as, from what I have so far of South Wind, his characters 
speak often in long reflective, contemplative or discursive dialogues, 
frequently fueled by vinous libations or the appalling whiskey of Mr 
Parker's 'club' for dissolute English expats (now I am starting to write 
like him). Of course the Count is also saying that after a Norman Douglas 
dialogue, one need a good drink to whet the whistle again, as we say here.

This work 'In Byron's Shadow' looks most interesting. Have you read it? Can 
you, ot others recommend it?

David Green

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