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Old 12-16-2019, 08:06 PM   #38
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. Not only am I much less inclined to think well of Greene for what seems to me to be cheating (in so many senses it's amazing/appalling/something), but I think this book was a horrible thing to do to Catherine and Harry. Parallels are/were obviously going to be drawn between the fictional and real protagonists, and I think it is quite cruel for him to set them up this way. (Even if the affair was not public knowledge at this point, Catherine and presumably several others - given how indiscreet Greene was - would have known and drawn their own conclusion.) My regard for Greene is sinking pretty steadily.
In terms of parallels, it seems reminiscent of Maurice telling Henry he’d gone to the PI, and giving him the report of Sarah’s affair, which I thought was Maurice’s most selfish, despicable act in the book.

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