Хоть меня и отвращают мелодраматические сведения о том, кто, кого и как вспоминал, но историей, подброшенной зарубежными коллегами, я не могу не поделиться: люди взрослые ничего не понимали в Джордже, но дети - и приравненные к ним специалисты по литературе - знают, каким он был) В истории есть и горькая правда: настоящее искусство требует от человека многого, и не каждый согласится идти на подобные жертвы)
История***
On the next Saturday morning I sat next to Mrs. Robb, in the lobby of Carnegie Hall, crying, as we waited for Laura to have her acting lesson with Miss Martin. Sick with disappointment I sobbed aloud as Mrs. Robb tried to comfort me. I had missed out on the golden opportunity of living in the sophisticated universe of Judith Martin, a person who recognized the greatness inside of me.
Suddenly the most elegant man I'd ever seen, tall and handsome in a dove-gray suit, was towering before me, looking down at me with questioning eyes. I looked up with my tear-stained face and he said something like "Why are you crying?" I told him that I wanted to be an actress but my parents were blocking this from happening.
He spoke to me just as Miss Martin did, with patience and interest. And in the most distinguished voice I'd ever heard, the man told me all I would ever need to know about acting.
"If this is what you truly want, you will be an actress," he said.
He said that no matter what my parents or anyone else had to say about it, I would be an actress. If it was truly my fate it would happen because I would make it happen. Acting would be the only thing in the world I would care about. Nothing else at all would ever matter to me. It would be the one and only focus of my heart and my soul.
I listened, mesmerized, and silent, knowing that acting would never claim that much of me. Ever. Then I asked if he was an actor. Yes, he said. His name was George Sanders. He patted my head and strode off into the crowd.
I dried my tears. Presto! My broken little heart was broken no longer, because suddenly I knew, with absolute certainty, that I did not want to be an actress if it meant abandoning every other deliciously fascinating thing in my life.
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Since I've been loving you,
Вавилонская библиотека,
Жорж Сандерс