In a 1974 Paris Review interview, an elderly Archibald MacLeish was asked about “the special pull of the Murphys,” the couple, Gerald and Sara, who personified the 1920s literary scene of American expatriates in Paris. “There was a shine to life wherever they were . . . a kind of revelation of inherent loveliness as though custom and habit had been wiped away and the thing itself was, for an instant, seen,” MacLeish said. “Don’t ask me how.”
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