Bryan Appleyard's Interview of Art in the London Times

publication date: Dec 8, 2009
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A half-naked 71-year-old with 8% body fat and the testosterone levels of a boy of 18 greets me at the door of a large house overlooking a golf course near St George, Utah. He has the physique of a very fit young man and the springy, energetic demeanour of somebody who has cracked most of life’s outstanding problems. I am calling on him because, ever since I heard of him, I have begun to look uncannily well.

Two weeks earlier I had strolled into the office of the editor of this organ.

“You look 10 years younger. Why?” he barked, as editors do.

I was 11lb lighter than the last time he’d seen me. But he said “younger”, note, not just thinner.

“Arthur De Vany,” I reply, “he’s this guy…”



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