tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post7648901746692828261..comments2024-03-27T11:26:20.466-07:00Comments on The Passing Tramp: O Rose, thou art sick: Patricia Highsmith's This Sweet Sickness (1960)The Passing Tramphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-55080560074531644472022-03-06T22:27:47.040-08:002022-03-06T22:27:47.040-08:00You should try Strangers on a Train at least.You should try Strangers on a Train at least.The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-81082531224602393112022-02-25T21:40:59.455-08:002022-02-25T21:40:59.455-08:00I know that eventually I'll have to bite the b...I know that eventually I'll have to bite the bullet and give Highsmith a go. I've been putting it off, thinking that her books sound a bit too upleasant.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-80473700807419914152022-02-23T14:26:05.420-08:002022-02-23T14:26:05.420-08:00I think an expresso machine would have seemed soph...I think an expresso machine would have seemed sophisticated to me a decade later, but then I grew up in AL not NY and I wasn't Mary Higgins Clark's agent.<br /><br />In 1979 Schartle wrote Highsmith:<br /><br />Since you clearly feel you have been cheated on commissions by two of the world's most reputable agents, I am not willing to continue to represent your work....The Passing Tramphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830680639601570152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137677673775151256.post-50881334199614308182022-02-23T14:14:24.973-08:002022-02-23T14:14:24.973-08:00"Patricia Schartle (her American agent at the..."Patricia Schartle (her American agent at the time, who fired Highsmith fired as a client after two decades, when she was also the American agent of bestselling suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark)"<br />Who fired whom? I'm mildly surprised they put up with each other for two decades - presumably they couldn't afford not to.<br />I don't know about adlts, but as an Enlish child at the end of the 1960s, espresso machines seemed wonderfully sophisticated and exciting - much more so than tea or coffee pots when you just poured water in the pot and left it to steep.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com