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[Gilbert] Roland... wanted to see Oscar Wilde's tomb at Pere Lachaise. 'It was abandoned, forgotten, he wrote, 'lizards crawled all over it, it depressed me, and at the Castiglione Bar with Buster Keaton we got drunk. Buster because he was having trouble with Natalie, and I because lizards crawled on Oscar Wilde's tomb.'

James Curtis, Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life

#James Curtis #Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life #Buster Keaton #Gilbert Roland #Oscar Wilde #it's kind of crazy to think because the big statue that's there was relatively new at this time #like he had been dead for 29 years but the statue had been built a few years after the fact #I found out recently that HG Wells put a bit of money down for it actually #they weren't tight but he felt they had 'similar souls' or paths for their souls #anyways! can't stop thinking about Curtis's phrasing #this book is great but it's nearly 700 pages so you really have to commit #it's also REALLY heavy #like the weight doesn't feel proportionate to the actual size

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