I have been dipping back into some Liebling (I find him comforting, frankly, as he could write like an angel. A New York angel but still an angel) and stumpled upon the following little bit I wanted to share as it amused the heck out of me:
The Colonel's ideal of feminine beauty remains constant.In this he resembles an old wartime friend of mine named Count Prziswieski, a minor figure in the exiled Polish Government.
All my life I have been faithful to one woman, the Count once said to me --- a fragile blonde with a morbid expression.He found this woman in every country, and she never aged, although the Count did. The fragile blonde with a morbid expression, wherever she turned up, was in her twenties.
Outstanding.
More to come later.
Posted by Random Penseur at September 21, 2005 01:16 PM | TrackBackOh, her! I see her every once in a while. She's been enchanting me since my college days. And, yep, she's still in her twenties!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at September 21, 2005 07:42 PM