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From playwright Alan Bennett's diaries in Writing Home:
Gore Vidal is being interviewed on Start the Week along with Richard (Watership Down) Adams. Adams is asked what he thought of Vidal's new novel about Lincoln. "I thought it was meretricious." "Really?" says Gore. "Well, meretricious and a happy new year." That's the way to do it.
Reader, I believe I have a new response for holiday well-wishers.
