Sunday, May 05, 2013

 

Blacklisted

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), "The Gentle Art of Being Interviewed," Vogue (July 1948), rpt. in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Donat Gallagher (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984), pp. 356-360 (at 356):
Was it a peculiarity of my own, or do you, Gentle Reader, as I once did, keep a black list of public characters? Mine grew longer every year. It comprised men and women, quite unknown to me except through the newspapers, for whom, nevertheless, I had a sharp dislike.



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