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Ruth Brown: "He'd like that, wouldn't he, Amis, if you said he was utterly despicable".
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McEwan says he and Amis enjoyed "wild times" in the 1970s, and remain good friends.
Perhaps that's why he damned Amis's satirical masterpiece, Money, to the faint glow of three stars.
He introduced Amis to her: "I thought her bright," Amis wrote to Larkin in 1977, "and tough and nice, and by God she doesn't half hate lefties".
Smith tweeted that he thought Amis was "just about completely wrong" and was intent on making the "opposite case".
The last example, incidentally, is an opinion which so infuriated Salman Rushdie that he invited Amis to settle the matter with fisticuffs.
He called Amis's views vile and obnoxious and compared them to "the ramblings of a British National Party thug", provocations that were partly responsible for drawing Amis into writing a piece in yesterday's Independent making clear his position.
He began a sequel to Trouble at Willow Gables, set in a women's college at Oxford and entitled Michaelmas Term at St Bride's, but did not finish it: "All literary inspiration has deserted me", he informed Amis on 13 August.
Nevertheless, a week later he told Amis that Brunette was helping him to write a novel, provisionally entitled Jill, about "a young man who invents an imaginary sister, and falls in love with her".
He didn't poach Amis, he says.
And both he and AMI have said their primary conceits were to protect Trump in the 2016 election.
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