Cheers!

Secondly, In Cold Blood is terrific. Really terrific. I wish I could say I’d read it prior to seeing the film, but that wouldn’t be true. The film was affecting and exhausting, but the book actually made me cry. Not from sadness or pathos - although the book is hardly feel-good - but through some sort of dense intensity which just seemed perfectly constructed amd utterly poignant. Having read it, I bought Breakfast in Tiffany’s. Not as heavy, but it has that nice clever touch at the end. I mention Tiffany’s because I found the prose so similar to In Cold Blood. On that front, therefore, we should leave Capote alone. Still, I’d easily believe Lee deserves some credit for the text.

Third, I’ve remember reading a book review recently in which rumours that Capote composed substantial amounts of To Kill A Mockingbird were dispelled. Is this, by any chance, the same book?

Lee and Capote are an intriguing, if odd, coupling.

Oh lets go have tea,
Oh she likes him,
Oh lets go for a picnic on box hill,
Oh Matron no reverand,
Isn’t tea drinking great
No she likes him,
Oh lets have a dance and drink tea,
Oh No I like him,
Lets have more tea
Oh good she likes the farmer and Darcy likes me,
Lets have tea
The END

*Emma Rant Off*