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INTERVIEWER
I think it’s interesting the way you manage to introduce a very strongly erotic element, but do it elliptically.
POWELL
Well, I think that really is the only way you can do it. I mean I’ve no strong feelings about people giving detailed descriptions of people going to bed except I never really feel it’s the right way to do it. Oddly enough, when I was in London yesterday I was passing a cinema and there was a still outside of a chap sort of lying on top of a girl. And I thought, Well, really, you know, I’m not sure that I really particularly want to see him having her. I think my own imagination would be better about that than him doing it. People are awfully odd about that. But I’m glad you think the erotic bits are erotic—one always hopes they are.
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| Authors Mentioned |
| Harold Acton, Kingsley Amis, Henry Green, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Evelyn Waugh, Honoré de Balzac, Cyril Connolly, Fyodor Dostoyevesky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roy Fuller, William Gerhardie, Mikhail Lermontov, Marcel Proust, Stendhal |
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