My Heroin Christmas
Terry Castle: Art Pepper and Me, 18 December 2003
“... the Goncourts weren’t helping much either. Apart from reprising Diderot’s great line on the Boucher portraits – ‘they have everything, Monsieur, but the truth’ – the brothers seemed strangely dull: more feeble and syphilitic than I remembered. Perhaps it was true: I was tiring of the 18th century. For twenty years it had been my academic meal ... ”
