Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...skips from one anecdote to another. Visitors included Noel Coward, Jean Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Gladys Stern, whom Morgan describes as "bursting fat." Morgan looks back to Maugham's youth, when he had to live in the unfashionable section of London and take the streetcar, instead of a taxi, to attend the smart dinner parties to which he was invited. In that young man he finds shades of the self-serving social climber Maugham wrote about when he depicted Hugh Walpole as Alroy Kear in Cakes...
...abuse you're putting up with is certainly severe enough to produce a sort of Doll's House in reverse--"Terry--you're leaving." On the other hand, there's obviously been some compelling reason for your holding on to me even this long--so if you did a Streetcar and kept me, I don't think you'd be sinning against conventional psychology...