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INTERVIEWER
You were in Ireland at the time when Yeats and Lady Gregory had a literary coterie around the Abbey Theatre. Did being a journalist give you an entrée to them?
PRITCHETT
It did. I wrote to Yeats and went to interview him. He was very impressive—tall, handsome, with dramatic gestures and a fine voice. I was having tea with him one day, and I remember he picked up a pot of tea and, finding that it was already full of old tea, he opened the window of his Georgian house and flung the contents into the square! Rhetoric poured out of him all the while.
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