Emmanuelle
LeBoutillierwrites from Paris, about the pictures of the 1946 Nuremberg hangings
Kimber,
Byng, and des autres
THIS doesn’t matter a damn, but one might as well
. . . etc. “Pour encourager les autres”
[Radical’s
Diary, July 31, 2003] is actually a phrase from
Voltaire’s “Candide” – “Dans ce pay-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.” It was, of course, in reference to the recently-liquidated
Admiral Byng.
I was simultaneously shocked and not-at-all surprised by your staggering anecdote about “Peter” Kimber‘s filthy little trick over your
“corrections” (for God’s sake . . .) to the
Keitel memoirs.
He was no more generous with his authors when I was dealing with him in the latish 1980’s; when he told me of the proposed advance on my first book, I actually thought he was joking. By then his office staff consisted of a truly amazing bunch of near-Dickensian stereotypes.
There was
Cliff, the lisping Uriah Heep of an assistant; the alcoholic vamp receptionist who picked biscuit crumbs off ones trousers extremely slowly; the editor who discussed ones MS with a teddy bear propped up on her desk.
Present-day publishers are all bastards, of course, but few of them are actually insane. Or maybe not.
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