From: sugar-free Candace
Category: Amis
Date: 8/1/99
Time: 5:21:06 PM
Remote Name: 129.219.247.6
FROM *VÉRA* BY STACY SCHIFF: "Dmitri spent a total of forty-two weeks in intensive care and rehabilitation. Martin Amis was on hand shortly after the worst was over, having secured Véra's consent to an interview about her life with VN for the London *Observer*. Amis found Mrs. Nabokov's humor and warmth much on display, though he was himself largely 'frozen with deference'. Dmitri was still living at the Lausanne hospital but joined his mother; his scorched fingers made an impression. Véra observed the striated skin on her son's arms and asked solicitously when the 'purple lace' was likely to disappear. She hoped Amis could reassure her that he drove with immaculate care. Stephen and Marie-Luce Parker also visited Montreux at the time. When Dmitri stepped out of the room at one point Véra turned to the couple: 'Don't ever let your children get burned.' One bargain she did not make with the gods in the course of Dmitri's recovery was to be more forgiving. The Amis piece was edited like any other; Vera recoiled when she saw that Amis intended to repeat her observation that VN 'was as a young man extremely beautiful', a remark she categorically denied having made. (And that Amis vividly remembered having heard. It remained in the piece.)"
Memo to Saccharine Sally: Martin Amis says that your raygun halitosis gave him the dry heaves. He was incredibly embarrassed by your pathetic drunken flirtations. Especially when you stripped down to your spandex shorts and climbed up on the table and proceeded to shake your booty right in his face. He said the table almost collapsed under the weight of your sugar-coated thunderthighs. Ciao fer now, poopsie.