City - Santa Monica State - CALIFORNIA Country - United States
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Many years ago, while an exchange student in the USA, I interviewed Christopher Isherwood. An edited transcript of the interview (called "'A Very Individualistic Old Liberal'") can be found in 'Conversations with Christopher Isherwood' edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman (University Press of Mississippi, 2001).
The photograph was copied from a slide taken with one of the old Kodak Instamatic cameras. What this picture lacks in 'composure' and technical quality it more than makes up for in terms of the memories it triggers off!
Perhaps it was the dog beneath the skin that never made the ascent...but it was nice to be over there on a visit when I was still a single man. These days everything seems to be exhumations and memorials. We quickly forget when we were all conspirators wending our way through lions and shadows. Maybe saying goodbye to Berlin and seeing the last of Mr Norris was the making of the author of 'Prater Violet', but it was just as well that he found a guru to whom he could be a disciple. Maybe there will come a time (maybe some October) when we have a meeting by the river with Christopher if not his kind...
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