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David Harcourt
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Posted: 18 Nov 2010 03:53 am |
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"Rich in Love" is a novel by Josephine Humphreys, best known because of Bruce Beresford's 1992 film version, starring Albert Finney among others. Finney plays a man who, as one of his younger daughters tells him, is "rich in love".
And he is.
It's a superb film. (Incidentally, you can see Rich in Love on the MGM channel on Sky at 6.45pm on Monday, 6 December, and again on 18 and 28 December.)
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 18 Nov 2010 03:58 am |
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For virtually the whole of my adult life I have been "rich in love".
It is a life which I have been privileged to spend in the company of some of the most wonderful people you can imagine.
Some of these companions were friends for a short time only.
Others were my closest friends for decades.
I even managed to persuade three of them to marry me.
If there is a God, please forgive me for this.
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Posted: 18 Nov 2010 04:01 am |
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Of these half-dozen or so people the companion I was most fond of - the one whose absence from my life I most regret, and which I began to regret immediately after our separation - asked when I left whether she could have some of our photographs.
I gave her a box in which I kept such things, and invited her to make a selection.
When I looked into that box today I found, for the first time, that not a single photograph of her remains. Her "selection", it would seem, comprised every one of the many photographs I had of her.
Now all I have to remind me of her is this drawing, which I made when we were together, more than 32 years ago:
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Posted: 18 Nov 2010 04:20 am |
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So here I am, no longer rich in love.
What a pity, what a pity. What a shame it is that one cannot go back and edit out of one's life the egregious errors of judgement (of which, in hindsight. there appear to be so many). How sad it is that there is no straightforward process by which one can apologise for having in one short life gotten so much so wrong.
I suppose nearly everyone arrives at this point in their life, sooner or later. As Richard Feynman said, "viewed from the inside, every life is a series of defeats".
Or a series of mistakes - which, when made, cannot be unmade, not even in the smallest degree.
June 1970: rich in love and preparing to make a shambles of life.
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