Carl Rollyson Quote
We read Byron’s letters there [in Venice] together. Then we were going up in the world, having the bloody government pay for our holidays. . . Venice revived him [Byron]. It restored him, Michael insisted. Venice is the happiest place on the planet, in my opinion. That’s why I can’t stand the Thomas Mann business. I laughed. A damn travesty, Michael asserted. Venice is not like that at all. Stendhal’s got all that in—how and why it was the best place in that time ... He was staying with his wonderful woman—whatever she is called—at the time that Napoleon escaped from Elba. He had just established his relations with the woman,and nothing was going to break that. Not even Napoleon. He [Stendhal] stayed there throughout the whole of the one hundred days.
We read Byron’s letters there [in Venice] together. Then we were going up in the world, having the bloody government pay for our holidays. . . Venice revived him [Byron]. It restored him, Michael insisted. Venice is the happiest place on the planet, in my opinion. That’s why I can’t stand the Thomas Mann business. I laughed. A damn travesty, Michael asserted. Venice is not like that at all. Stendhal’s got all that in—how and why it was the best place in that time ... He was staying with his wonderful woman—whatever she is called—at the time that Napoleon escaped from Elba. He had just established his relations with the woman,and nothing was going to break that. Not even Napoleon. He [Stendhal] stayed there throughout the whole of the one hundred days.
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