“... to fill in the spaces. The tone of it reminds me of the tone of Lowell’s conversation with Ian Hamilton from 1971, mechanically clever but distant and deaf, all denatured one-liners and musing rhetorical questions. It’s not conversation but the complacent burble of a radio on a windowsill. History is about as broad as Lowell gets, a custard-pie violence ...”

“... Well, not worst enemy. But publicly that’s how I was seen.He saw you as his worst enemy.Yes. Hamilton v. Salinger. Those were not words I’d ever imagined seeing. Not in my wildest dreams.That was how the proceedings were styled?Or the other way round. It became a law-journal case. In some respects the law was changed as a result. Every so often I get ...”