tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post116484242961851360..comments2023-10-29T07:54:36.000+00:00Comments on georgiasam: Against the Christiansputhwuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606399161863289851noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-1165277566412439222006-12-05T00:12:00.000+00:002006-12-05T00:12:00.000+00:00Stories about Empson's drunkeness.... inebriated s...Stories about Empson's drunkeness.... inebriated seventh type of ambiguous... floating tropes, double grammar... a friend, a professor's told how she danced with Empson's wife in Montreal at a party, and the Possum so I'm told presided at said event... legends, gossip, anecdote, the stuff of literary wonders and soirees! dainty, charmante, wonderous.Clifford Duffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05408377959125651878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-1164940244154346862006-12-01T02:30:00.000+00:002006-12-01T02:30:00.000+00:00You're calling my bluff here, since I don't actual...You're calling my bluff here, since I don't actually possess a copy of Haffenden's edition of the letters (though I do possess William Empson's fireplace, which is a different story entirely). There's a consistent vein of camp exaggeration in TS Eliot's comments about Empson, whom he seems to have liked and admired a lot, drunknenness and apalling grooming habits notwithstanding, so maybe the letter wasn't so bad after all, but my memory of it is that Empson was complaining about TSE's inadequate efforts to market the Faber edition of WE's poems.puthwuthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606399161863289851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-1164905813398459652006-11-30T16:56:00.000+00:002006-11-30T16:56:00.000+00:00Speaking at the 1982 Joyce centenary celebrations ...<EM>Speaking at the 1982 Joyce centenary celebrations in Dublin, Empson was incoherent and inaudible, wandered offstage at one point for five minutes, and frequently appeared not to know where he was.</EM><BR/><BR/>A bit like the Brian Jonestown Massacre, then.<BR/><BR/>Is there anywhere we can see the letter to Eliot? I'd love to read it.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12272341393007849321noreply@blogger.com