After a leisurely meal it was out into the sun-drenched streets again, replete and relaxed, in boisterous good-natured company, for an excellent coffee and a cigar.
Replete with General Patton-style sunglasses, helmet and swagger stick, Clark routinely arrested demonstrators with the help of an electric cattle prod.
Seymour, working from a trunk of papers and a couple of Hellé’s old scrapbooks, has resuscitated a world replete with sleek cars, spectacular crashes, and scads of lovers.
Unattributed, The New Yorker, 17 January 2005, The New Yorker
reviewing Miranda Seymour's Bugatti Queen: In Search of a French Racing Legend. Amazon
"I have ever hated all nations, professions and communities, and all my love is toward individuals... principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth" - Jonathan Swift
