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June 25, 2004

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Charles

You should read some Greene. OK, some *more* Greene. He is a fantastic writer: never a wasted word. Our Man In Havana is funny, in the manner of being driven through a city by a mad person: you laugh because otherwise you'll be terrified.

He used to sit down and write 500 words before lunch, then another 500 after. Then stop. (I think that's the right anecdote.)

Also wrote the screenplay for The Third Man - candidate for one of the top ten films of all time.

(PS - is this Wordpress?)

Charles

Richard

Jem - start with the Entertainments, his (I think) faultless early genre books, all good noirish British pre-war intrigue. I'll lend you them.

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