{"id":54438,"date":"2013-06-13T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=54438"},"modified":"2013-06-13T13:02:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T17:02:47","slug":"waugh-on-capote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/waugh-on-capote\/","title":{"rendered":"Waugh on Capote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54441\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Evelyn-Waugh-Colin-Spencer-Paris-Review-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Evelyn-Waugh-Colin-Spencer-Paris-Review-2.jpg\" alt=\"Evelyn-Waugh-Colin-Spencer-Paris-Review-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Evelyn-Waugh-Colin-Spencer-Paris-Review-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Evelyn-Waugh-Colin-Spencer-Paris-Review-2-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colin Spencer, Evelyn Waugh (pen &amp; ink, 1959)<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Of Mr. Capote&#8217;s prose it is hard to speak temperately. It is some sort of jargon quite unfamiliar to me. Of the information he seeks to convey, I am no judge. I have a distant acquaintance with a few of the subjects. Mr. Cecil Beaton I have known, not well, for nearer fifty than forty years. He has always struck me as a genial, hospitable, light-hearted fellow; to Mr. Capote he is &#8216;one of the most remarkable fellows alive&#8217;; and formidable, &#8216;bitter as bile to those in the Beaton bad-book, unhappy souls who entered this no-exit Hades&#8217;; and &#8216;haughty&#8217;; but above all &#8216;serious.&#8217; &#8216;When discussing personalities Beaton invariably, asks, &#8220;But would you say X is a serious person?&#8221;&#8217; Not invariably, Mr. Capote, I assure you. I have never heard him ask this question. Perhaps he likes to pull their legs a little when he goes to America.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Evelyn Waugh on <em>Observations<\/em>, by Truman Capote and Richard Avedon, 1959. (Made available along with the rest of <em>The Spectator<\/em>&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.spectator.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">vast archive<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><em><small>Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/colinspencer.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><small>ColinSpencer.co.uk<\/small><\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of Mr. Capote&#8217;s prose it is hard to speak temperately. It is some sort of jargon quite unfamiliar to me. Of the information he seeks to convey, I am no judge. I have a distant acquaintance with a few of the subjects. 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