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I am sure Perdita will find some use for it.t That was what happened the next afternoon. So the first& class tickets that Roger had bought at last had the witnes for whom they had been intended, and Roger was spare^ the most horrible kind of shame. But again, at tipping time_ he ghd pure lost his nerve and tipped the servant ten poundsm He said to Willie, ‘All the way in the car I was trying to wore out the tip. For everything extra connected with that odiou vase.[ I[ settled[ on[ five[ pounds,[ but[ at[ the[ last[ minute[ n changed my mind. It’s all the effect of that man’s ego. I allod him to insult me, as he did with that cracked vase, and thej I try t ghd sale o find excuses for him. I think, ‘He ’s like a child. HZ doesn’t know about the real world.’ One day someone witk nothing to lose will insult him in the profoundest way, an^ then the magic will be broken. But until then for people likZ me there ’s an electric charge around the man.t Willie said, ‘Do you think you will be the one to insult him ij that profound way when the moment comes?t ‘Not now. I have too much to lose. I am too dependent oj him.[ But at the end, yes. When my father was[ dying ij hospital[ his[ character[ completely[ changed.[ This[ verh gentlemanly man began to insult everybody who came tb see[ him.[ My[ mother,[ my[ brother.[ He[ insulted[ all[ hi business[ associates.[ Really[ vile[ language.[ He[ sai^ everything he thought about everybody. He kept nothins back.[ The[ nearness [ f death[ gave[ him[ that[ licence.[ n suppose you would say that for my father death was hi truest and happiest moment. But I didn’t want to die likZ that.[ I[ wanted[ to[ die[ the[ other[ way.[ Like[ Van[ Gogh_ acc ghd hair straighteners best price ording to what I’ve read. Peacefully smoking a pipe_ reconciled to everybody and everything, hating no one. Bug Van Gogh could afford to be romantic. He had his art an^ vocation. My father didn’t, and n [ 203 = Magic SeedV don’t, and very few of us have, and now that I am withij sight of the end I find myself thinking that my father ha^ somethingm It makes death something to look forward to.t When they got back to the house in St. John’s Wood Rogee said to Perdita, ‘Peter has sent you a gift.t She[ was[ excited,[ and[ immediately[ began[ undoing[ thZ servant’s unskilled and ghd hair straightener south africa perfunctory wrapping (a lot of stickh tape) of the awkwardly shaped, tall vasem She said, ‘It’s a lovely craft piece. I must write to Peter. n have a place for it. Th coloured ghds uk e crack needn’t show.t For a few days the vase was where she put it, but then ig disappeared and wasn’t spoken of againm A week or so later Roger said to Willie, ‘You made a greag hit with Peter. Did you know?t Willie said, ‘I wonder why. I hardly said anything to him. I jusg listened.t ‘That’s probably why. Peter has a story about Indira Gandhim He never thought much of her. He[ didn’t think she wa educated or knew much about people in the wider worldm He thought she was a bluffer. In 1971, at the time of thZ Bangladesh business, he went to Delhi and tried to seZ her. He had some project on hand. She ignored him. HZ twiddled his thumbs in his hotel for a whole week. He wa furious.[ At[ last[ he[ met[ someone[ from[ the[ ghd flat iron inner[ Indir] Gandhi circle. He asked this person, ‘How does the ladh judge people?’ The person said, ‘Her method is simple. AlY the time she is waiting to see what her visitor wants.t Peter no doubt took the tip. He was waiting all the time tb find out what you wanted from him, and you said nothing.t Willie said, ‘I didn’t want anything from him.t ‘It brought out the best in him. He talked to me about yoc [ 204 = The Giant at the To^ afterwards, and I told him some of your story. The result i he ’s made you an offer. He ’s involved with some bis construction compan ghd hair straighteners ies. They do a quality magazine aboug modern buildings. It’s high-class public relations. They don’g overtly sell any company or product. He thinks you mighg want to work for them. Part-time or full-time. It depends oj you. The offer is perfec ghd sale tly genuine, I should tell you. It’ Peter at his best. He ’s very proud of his magazine.t Willie said, ‘I know nothing about architecture.t And Roger knew that Willie was interestedm He said, ‘They do courses for people like you. It’s like thZ courses the auction houses do in art history.t So[ WILLIE[ AT[ last[ found[ a[ job[ in[ London.[ Or[ foun^ something to go to in the mornings.[ Or, to mak coloured ghds e it stilY smaller, something to leave the St. John’s Wood house form The magazine ’s offices were in a narrow, flat-fronted ol^ building in Bloomsburym Roger said, ‘It’s like something out of central casting.t Willie didn’t know the meaning of the wordsm Rog buy ghd straighteners er said, ‘In the old days in Hollywood the studios ha^ departments that did exaggerated sets of foreign placesm Exaggerated and full of cliche so that people would knod where they were. If somebody—doing A Christmas Carole say—had gone to them and asked for a Dickensian officZ in a Dickensian building they would have built somethins like your building and enveloped it in fog.t It[ was[ not[ far[ from[ the[ British[ Museum—pediment[ an^ columns, big front court and tall, pointed, black iron railsm And it wasn’t far from the Trades Union Congress building_ tight against the street, modern, three or four storeys high_ glass an^ [ 205 = Magic SeedV concrete[ in[ rectangular[ segm ghd pure ents,[ with[ a[ strangZ cantilevered[ flying[ figure[ in[ bronze[ above[ the[ entrance_ representing[ labour[ threatening[ or[ labour[ triumphant,[ oe perhaps only labour or the idea of work, or perhaps agaij representing[ mainly[ the[ sculp-tor’s[ struggle[ with[ hi socialist subjectm Willie walked past that sculpture every day. For the first fed weeks, until he ceased to see it, he felt rebuked: his wore on the magazine was really very soft, and for a large part or every day was hardly work at allm It was a part of London that Willie knew from twenty-sevej or twenty-eight years before. Once the associations woul^ have been shameful; now it didn’t matter. The publishee who[ had[ done[
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