Pleased to Meet You writer Celeste Lewis is out there getting Lexingtonians to know one another a little better by gently probing their personal interests, recollections, tastes and aspirations.
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This week’s interview: Sue Wylie, WVLK Talk Show Host
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Where would you like to travel that you have not yet been?
Spain. I still have a very romanticized, antiquated vision of this country. I still envision traveling through the country of Don Quixote, with its windmills and flamenco dancers in village squares.
What book are you currently reading and what do you think about it?
“The Duchess of Devonshire”, the memoir of Deborah Mitford, one of the amazingly dynamic and vastly entertaining six Mitford sisters who grew up in British society and great style in the 30’s. Mitford is wickedly witty and it’s fascinating to read of her family, its staff of servants, its stables and the changes that time brought to the “upper crust” of British society.
What was the first job you ever had?
Selling very, very inexpensive and poorly- made house dresses (long before so-called “housewives” even dreamed of wearing pants.) As a teen, I worked in a tiny, low-rent shop in downtown Cincinnati during the summer and LOVED it, even though the clothes were so shoddy that they should have carried labels reading “Do not wash or dry clean.”
What’s on the menu for your favorite dinner?
All-American me would have to go for the All-American favorite - a huge shrimp cocktail, a big juicy steak cooked rare with mushrooms and a baked potato loaded with sour cream and butter. And, as long as I’m dreaming, throw in ice cream with fudge sauce for dessert.
What is another career you might have liked to try if you had not taken the path you did?
The mysterious world of the FBI agent.
What’s the best advice you ever got?
A little verse that a favorite high-school teacher taught me. It’s held good all my life.
“Straight is the line of duty. Curved is the line of beauty.
Follow the straight and thou shalt see the curved line follow after thee.”