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To: Oblomov who wrote (37135)	7/27/2005 6:45:07 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

OT yes I read parts of that Fussell book and enjoyed it. I actually had Paul Fussell as a guest in my house once and committed the faux pas of commenting in a slightly critical way on something he said about a poem by Oscar Wilde in his book "Poetic Meter and Poetic Form." He did not accept my criticism. I was just pointing out that the Wilde poem was written conspicuously in "In Memoriam" meter and that it was a kind of ironic (and decadent) anti-Victorian little poem that anticipated the tone of T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock." But, no, there was just something Fussell did not like about that little poem ("Symphony in Yellow") and I got nowhere in discussing it with him. Fussell seems to have been a kind of hard person to deal with at times. When he thought his wife's friends had stayed too late he would appear in the livingroom in nothing but speedo briefs and walk around until they went home. But I have enjoyed his books and made a lot of use of one or two of them.