Tuesday, August 11, 2009

LOVE IS WHERE IT FALLS by Simon Callow




In this great Modern Age of ours everything seems to have become disposable and casual.
Is it always a bad sign when relationships and friendships last a lesser time than it takes a packet of Walkers Salt&Vinegar crisps to go out of date on a shelf.

This Book is about a genuine friendship , a higher form of platonic shared soul bonding , not without its tsunamis , but , like the North Star , always there , never wavers.From the off this relationship was never going to get physical , so they had to develop the supreme bonds that last.

Peggy Ramsay was a theatrical agent ,and also responsible for encouraging Jean Rhys to publish Wide Sargasso Sea.

There are also nuggets of wisdom dispensed from the present Callow looking back on the young Man starting out on what turned out to be a highly satisfying career as an Actor and Writer.He released very early the discernment " you can never be better than your play" and gives an insight to the prime motivator of his intense output " a fear of stopping , asking yourself questions".

This Book goes a long way to reclaiming Love from the dirty four letter word we have allowed it to become.

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