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From: "Basil Lawrence" <hhumbert@HOTMAIL.COM>
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> Don, I think Amis may have beaten you to the "teeth & dentistry"
category -
> - and it needs to include Joyce.
>
> see
> http://www.citypaper.net/articles/021199/20q.shtml
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>
> "Now that you've so publicly had your teeth fixed, does that mean an end
> to dental anxiety in your work?
>
> You catch me on a day when I've just posed the question, a rather
> grandiose question, in this memoir I'm writing. The question is: Of these
> three noted stylists-James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov and me-how many
> suffered dental catastrophes in their early-to-middle 40s? And the answer
> is all three.
>
> Clear link between teeth and greatness.
>
> Yes, right, yeah. I like to think so."
>
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> In Amis's memoir, _Experience_ (see the chapter 'Him who is, him who
> was!'), you'll find more on the subject.
>
From: "Basil Lawrence" <hhumbert@HOTMAIL.COM>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (25
lines) ------------------
> Don, I think Amis may have beaten you to the "teeth & dentistry"
category -
> - and it needs to include Joyce.
>
> see
> http://www.citypaper.net/articles/021199/20q.shtml
>
>
> "Now that you've so publicly had your teeth fixed, does that mean an end
> to dental anxiety in your work?
>
> You catch me on a day when I've just posed the question, a rather
> grandiose question, in this memoir I'm writing. The question is: Of these
> three noted stylists-James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov and me-how many
> suffered dental catastrophes in their early-to-middle 40s? And the answer
> is all three.
>
> Clear link between teeth and greatness.
>
> Yes, right, yeah. I like to think so."
>
> ---
>
> In Amis's memoir, _Experience_ (see the chapter 'Him who is, him who
> was!'), you'll find more on the subject.
>