DINESEN
I'll sit here so I can see everything. [Lights cigarette.]
INTERVIEWER
Pleasant place, isn't it?
DINESEN
Yes, very pleasant, and I recognize it. I was here in 1912. Every now and again here in Rome I recognize very vividly a place I've visited then. [Pause.] Oh, I shall go mad!
INTERVIEWER
[Startled.] What is it?
DINESEN
Look how crooked that picture is! [Indicates blackened portrait across room.]
INTERVIEWER
I'll straighten it. [Goes to it.]
DINESEN
No, more to the right.
INTERVIEWER
Like this?
DINESEN
That's better.
[Two solemn gentlemen at table beneath portrait indicate bewilderment.]
Isak Dinesen: The Art of Fiction No. 14, Interviewed by Eugene Walter, in Women at Work: Interviews from the Paris Review
I'll sit here so I can see everything. [Lights cigarette.]
INTERVIEWER
Pleasant place, isn't it?
DINESEN
Yes, very pleasant, and I recognize it. I was here in 1912. Every now and again here in Rome I recognize very vividly a place I've visited then. [Pause.] Oh, I shall go mad!
INTERVIEWER
[Startled.] What is it?
DINESEN
Look how crooked that picture is! [Indicates blackened portrait across room.]
INTERVIEWER
I'll straighten it. [Goes to it.]
DINESEN
No, more to the right.
INTERVIEWER
Like this?
DINESEN
That's better.
[Two solemn gentlemen at table beneath portrait indicate bewilderment.]
Isak Dinesen: The Art of Fiction No. 14, Interviewed by Eugene Walter, in Women at Work: Interviews from the Paris Review
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