Tuesday, December 05, 2006

(New to) Great Regulars: [Maurice Bowra] was referring

to [John] Betjeman's well-known habit of infidelity, indulged even in the earliest days of his marriage, and to [his wife] Penelope's serial embrace of causes. She was a premature New Ager who studied Sanskrit, flirted with mysticism, turned the house into an animal sanctuary and died while on a pilgrimage to the Himalayas.

from Charles McGrath: The New York Times: The Nostalgist

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