
“The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.”
Tallulah Bankhead, Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952), ch. 9, p. 172: Duels with the Screen
Source: The Black Room (1975), p. 20
Context: All men are stuck in a kind of fog. They're surrounded by a wall of fog. They think this is perfectly normal, but it's not. It means that since they can't see much beyond their own little situation, they tend to vegetate. They need some immediate stimulus to keep them alert.
“The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.”
Tallulah Bankhead, Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952), ch. 9, p. 172: Duels with the Screen
James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.
The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)
“The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste.”
Source: Spring's Awakening
“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”
“The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis