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A.B. Both Bellow and White got the Nobel Prize. When are you going to get it?G.G. Yes, I was asked that question in Stockholm. How would you like the Nobel Prize? I said I look forward to getting a bigger prize than that.
A.B. Which one?G.G. Death. Let’s go and eat lunch….  ‘Burgess put words in my mouth which I had to look up in the dictionary.’ This turned me against him. He had long, it seemed, had something against me: back in 1966 I wrote an article on him in which I suggested that he had been touched
by the Jansenist heresy. In 1980 he had abandoned hell and sin and was on the way to dispensing with God, but the imputation of Jansenism still rankled. He was like a murderer annoyed at being called a shoplifter.
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