![]() (And at this point we're supposed to feel sorry for Babe, whose controlling mother raised three daughters who all made important marriages, and although Babe was adored in print and magazines as the trendsetter of society, and although she had all the money and servants and jet-setting vacations that anyone could want, she was also married to a man who slept around a man whom Babe never let see her without flawless makeup over decades of marriage. Babe, on the other hand, saw through the camp and believed the two of them to have a meaningful friendship probably the only real love she felt in her life. At this point, Capote was an exuberant and attractive young man who was able to charm women and disarm men with his campy gay manners and bitchy gossipmongering – anyone who was anyone wanted Capote at their dinners and parties, trusting him to perform as an amusing lapdog. Visible only to each other, they firmly believed. And Babe was, beneath the couture and makeup, a shy, unsure woodland creature, hugging herself for comfort. Until the moment they locked eyes on the CBS plane, each so startled their masks fell, and Truman was, for only a fragment of a moment, no longer the startlingly self-assured prodigy but a lost little boy, forgotten. They only recognized each other, not as reflections in a mirror, but as a reflection of a deeper, darker, murkier sore, or hole, or something gaping but always, always hidden. For what, neither could precisely express just yet. From the moment they met, Capote and Babe knew that they had a special kind of friendship:Ī beautiful – an exquisite – woman. ![]() ![]() Swans is primarily about the friendship between Capote and the undeniable leader of the Manhattan social scene of the Fifties and Sixties, Babe Paley (wife of the megawealthy Bill Paley, founder of CBS). But The Swans of Fifth Avenue does have a little something else going for it that elevates the story just a smidgen: Truman Capote, and his entire literary trajectory. If I had known that it was about those fabulous fashion icons of the Fifties and Sixties – the Ladies who Lunch (without ever actually eating Givenchy and Balenciaga require a certain emaciated drape dontchaknow) – then I may well have given this book a pass: I've never seen an episode of Real Housewives of Wherever and don't much care about the inside story of trophy wives. I picked up The Swans of Fifth Avenue because it was on some list or other of the most anticipated books of the year, and knowing that author Melanie Benjamin had a big success with The Aviator's Wife (which I haven't read), I thought I may as well be in on what other people are looking forward to reading in 2016. The haunting glance of a woman who knew she was beautiful because of how she saw herself reflected in her friend's eyes. Beauty in all its glory, in all its iterations the exquisite moment of perfect understanding between two lonely, damaged souls, sitting silently by a pool, or in the twilight, or lying in bed, vulnerable and naked in every way that mattered. Add to that the low drop chance and you're looking at one of the premium currencies in Diablo 4.Beauty. Helltides are not always active, making the acquisition of Forgotten Souls a bit tricky. While this system predominantly costs large amounts of Gold, it will also take one Forgotten Soul every time you wish to reroll, a cost that can easily rack up due to the random nature of Enchanting.Īlthough Forgotten Souls are critical for end-game progression, they can only be gathered from one source Helltide zones. When you are trying to find a perfectly statted item, being able to swap out a useless stat for your best-in-slot is very strong and can turn a decent item into an amazing one. Performed at an Occultist NPC, this means rerolling one of the stats on the item into a randomised new one. ![]() ![]() Upgrading to these final tiers will take quite a few Forgotten Souls, so you will want to farm up a large amount, as well as make sure you have enough Gold for the payment cost.Īlongside item upgrades, Forgotten Souls can also be used to Enchant an item. ![]()
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