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The Bennington Banner, July 14, 1991.

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“Nearly everyone had heard of him, and I was given all sorts of contradictory but fascinating information: that he was a brilliant man; that he was a fraud; that he had no college degree; that he had been a great intellectual in the forties...”

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Winter in Vermont.

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Vermont woods.

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“Then – I don't know, I must've blacked out, because the next thing I knew my back was against a wall, in an entirely different place, and a strange girl was talking to me. Very pretty, in a snub-nosed, good-natured way; dark hair, freckles, light blue eyes... “I couldn't make out what she was saying, though the timbre of her voice was clear even over the noise: cheerful, raucous, oddly pleasant. I leaned forward – she was a small girl, barely five feet – and cupped a hand to my ear.”

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Paul Chinn for The San Francisco Examiner, October 18, 1992.

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“’A law firm in Boston serves as the trustees, and on Thursday morning we left the country house, came into Hampden for a few minutes so the twins and I could get our things, and then we all went to Boston and checked into the Parker House. That’s a lovely hotel, do you know it? No? Dickens used to stay there when he came to America.’“

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“Only much later did I find out what Judy had given me: Demerol.”

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John Collyer, detail of Priestess of Delphi, 1891. Art Gallery of South Australia.

“‘I suppose in a certain way I was misled by accounts of the Pythia, the pneuma enthusiastikon, poisonous vapors and so forth....’”

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The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi), July 19, 1991.

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“‘Don’t bother,’ I said, sinking back into my bed. The IV was like ice in my veins. ‘Tell me about Rome.’ ‘All right,’ he said, and he began to talk very quietly about the lovely Etruscan terra-cottas in the Villa Giulia...

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“The trip was all Bunny talked about. He bought clothes, guidebooks, a record called Parliamo Italiano which promised to teach the listener Italian in two weeks or less (’Even to those who’ve never had luck with other language courses!’ boasted the jacket)...”

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“The light on the lawn was golden, casting long velvety shadows, and the cloudy, radiant sky was straight out of Constable; though I didn’t want to admit it, I was about half-drunk.”

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