tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post6482158861039618165..comments2024-01-24T01:27:11.111-05:00Comments on Café Muscato: Birthday Girl: The BaronessMuscatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04657061324487851341noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-83320859324551357392013-04-19T13:25:26.549-04:002013-04-19T13:25:26.549-04:00Philip Core (in my "Bible", Camp: The Li...Philip Core (in my "Bible", <em>Camp: The Lie That Tells The Truth</em>) says of the Baroness: <em>"The determined camp with which she made the most of her hardships earned her a place in the world of letters, and a visual immortality in countless photographs by the great cameramen. Her habit of being carried into her own drinks parties wearing a voluminous Pierrot costume over her wasted frame is the pefect reminder that camp is often the spectre at the feast."</em><br /><br />Which I think is a perfect description. JxJonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15501010362663971583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-49214342496657560352013-04-18T14:41:27.926-04:002013-04-18T14:41:27.926-04:00She wrote a sequel of sorts, you know, called Shad...She wrote a sequel of sorts, you know, called <i>Shadows on the Grass</i>. However, I understand that she first considered, but discarded, a range of titles, including:<br /><br /><i>Out of Africa II: Far Out!<br /><br />Outer of Africa: The Reckoning<br /><br />Out of Africa with a Vengeance<br /><br />OOA2: Down and Out in the Ngong Hills</i><br /><br />and<br /><br /><i>Out of Africa 2: Electric Boogaloo</i><br /><br />Perhaps it's just as well...Muscatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657061324487851341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-42869272815018531212013-04-17T21:19:25.014-04:002013-04-17T21:19:25.014-04:00i longed for the sequel
get out of africai longed for the sequel<br /><br /><i>get out of africa</i>normadesmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17325110017442011627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-7652405260159371012013-04-17T20:46:51.609-04:002013-04-17T20:46:51.609-04:00I read Winter's Tales as a youth and loved the...I read Winter's Tales as a youth and loved the richness and poetry of her prose. I'll take Isak Dinesen over Graham Greene any day of the week.tartandtreaclynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7218985326921858943.post-12144458579355651852013-04-17T11:51:58.629-04:002013-04-17T11:51:58.629-04:00to your footnote regarding the warmth of memory fo...to your footnote regarding the warmth of memory for her, years later the farm was carved up and subdivided into a suburb. A suburb called "Karen"...Troy Wearernoreply@blogger.com