We're been taking up Diaghileff in a serious way — our little group, you know — and really, he's wonderful!
Who else but Diaghileff could give those lovely
Russians things the proper accent?
And accent — if you know what I mean — accent is everything!
Accent! Accent! What would art be without accent?
Accent is coming in — if you get what I mean — and what they call "punch" is going out. I always thought it was a frightfully vulgar sort of thing, anyhow — punch!
The thing I love about the Russians is their
Orientalism.
You know there's an old saying that if you find a Russian you catch a Tartar . . . or something like that.
I'm sure that is wrong. . . . I get so MIXED on quotations. But I always know where I can find them, if you know what I mean.
But the Russian verve isn't Oriental, is it?
Don't you just dote on verve?