By Dale Salwak
A set of essays edited through Professor Salwak whose courses contain literary biographies of John Wain and A.J.Cronin. He additionally wrote reference publications to Kingsley Amis, John Braine, A.J.Cronin, Carl Sandburg and John Wain.
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Otherwise, I should only perhaps add that I was once saying to a mutual acquaintance, in his presence, how I had managed the delicate task of writing frankly and truthfully Profile 17 about a friend without giving offence. ', he exclaimed, with a mild amount of warmth. Well, not enough offence to make me change anything. 4 Kingsley, As I Know Him PAUL FUSSELL I first met Kingsley in the mid-1950s, in Princeton, where he was the object of intense social admiration as a result of Lucky Jim, which appeared in 1954.
In those estates, the favourite quarry is a naked woman. The world of The Alteration is also reactionary. The victim chiefly claiming our attention is young Hubert Anvil, a celebrated choirboy now reaching puberty. Should he be castrated to preserve that beautiful voice? It is 1976, right enough, but England is Catholic and under the thumb of the Pope. Thus, the title refers both to the bifurcation of history and Hubert's possible little operation. What happened apparently was that Martin Luther was reconciled to Rome and became Germanian I in 1535.
That I demurred only once or twice, as when during Richard Nixon's period of killing North Vietnamese with relish Kingsley proposed a toast to Nixon and I had to decline, proposing instead 'The Constitution of the United States'. This was during Kingsley's and my attempt to replace tobacco-inhaling with nasal snuff-taking, and I recall vividly Kingsley's posture during these diatribes and arguments, emplaced stoutly at the table, with legs apart, several of his snuffboxes (one in the shape of a female thigh, done in ivory), arrayed before him on the white tablecloth, with his glass of whisky positioned precisely before him, while, in a manner which might remind the literate of Gibbon or Coleridge, he discoursed with indefatigable energy and control, if not always perfect sense or tact.