although I know Dmitri and Brian Boyd like to harp on VN's virtues, awareness of a single act of loving-kindness escapes me. Waiting (and this time hoping) to be proved wrong as usual,

Carolyn Kunin

Into one of his American homes, did not a strange cat (or was it a small dog?) enter, and VN kindly fed it, or approved of Vera feeding it, and also allowed it to explore the house? (Recall his saying approvingly that Mr Bloom speaks charmingly to his cat in the scene in "Ulysses" that VN calls one of the greatest passages in all literature.)

 

Also, he was a generous tipper in the Montreux hotel, and the staff were protective and fond of him.

 

But no doubt Dmitri and Brian Boyd can supply many more impressive examples.

 

Anthony Stadlen