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“Have you never thought of divorcing Gray?”
“I’ve got no reason for divorcing him.”
“That doesn’t prevent your countrywomen from divorcing their husbands when they have a mind to.”
She laughed.
"Why d'you suppose they do it?"
“Don’t you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”
-- Somerset Maugham, "The Razor's Edge"
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
Do you agree with Anthony Burgess that this is Maugham's greatest novel?
Posted by: Sidney Ghoti | May 20, 2023 at 10:42 AM