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...says Mary, "and your body's been running at 150 miles an hour for days." One night, after freebasing in the rear of her van, they took some Quaaludes and passed out, leaving an unlit propane torch with its nozzle open-creating a risk that a stray spark could ignite the propane and blow...
LOITERING WITH INTENT by Muriel Spark Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 217 pages...
...Dear Miss Spark, How do you do " wrote Evelyn Waugh to Muriel Spark in 1960, after delighting in three of her early novels...
Today, 13 clever and elegant novels later, the question still stands. Loitering With Intent may be as close to an answer as Spark intends to give. Her heroine, Fleur Talbot, is an English writer not unlike herself starting out in a London bed-sitter three decades ago. She takes a job as secretary to a dotty group calling itself the Autobiographical Association, and quickly progresses from helping the members with grammar to embellishing and inventing the very lives they are recounting...
...million. The Rebbetzin's first show dealt with the Nazi Holocaust. Said Jungreis, who spent a year in Bergen-Belsen: "We must learn to speak of the unspeakable, to answer the unanswerable. We are a nation that actually descended into the abyss of hell and yet retained a spark of divinity...