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Spinksis a novelist Jerry represents. Jerry describes him as “a very thin bloke. About fifty. Wears dark glasses day and night. He lives alone in a furnished room.” He represents the classic archetype of the starving artist, solitary and eccentric: the kind of figure Jerry and Robert idolized in their youth. His artistic integrity at the price of a normal life contrasts with Casey, the image of the lazy artist who has compromised on his integrity for financial gain. Jerry believes in Spinks’s artistry, whereas Robert refuses to publish him, indicating his obstinate contempt for modern literature regardless of quality.
Spinks Quotes in Betrayal
The Betrayal quotes below are all either spoken by Spinks or refer to Spinks . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Scene 7 Quotes
I’m a bad publisher because I hate books […]. I mean modern novels, first novels and second novels, all that promise and sensibility it falls upon me to judge, to put the firm’s money on, and then to push for the third novel, see it done, see the dust jacket done, see the dinner for the national literary editors done, […] all in the name of literature. You know what you and Emma have in common? You love literature. I mean you love modern prose literature, I mean you love the new novel by the new Casey or Spinks. It gives you a thrill.
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Spinks Character Timeline in Betrayal
The timeline below shows where the character Spinks appears in Betrayal. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Scene 5
...Robert are in a hotel room in Venice. Emma is reading a new novel by Spinks. Robert reveals that Spinks is Jerry’s client and that Jerry had tried to get him...
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Scene 6
...fallen off his bike, and Emma mentions that she’s read and enjoyed the book by Spinks that Jerry gave her. Jerry tells her that Spinks lives a solitary, ascetic lifestyle.
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Scene 7
The subject of Spinks’s book comes up. Robert, drunk by this point, begins to grumble about his job as...
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