"I used to be surprised and shocked because old people accepted the calamities and deaths of their old friends with seeming equanimity. Now I realise that, had they not done so, they would have gone mad." James Lees-Milne, diary, November 25, 1975 Continue reading Almanac: James Lees-Milne on the deaths of old friends at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:00AM on February 14, 2020