WBY on the morning after he won the Nobel Prize, in the house on Merrion Sq. which was famously so woodwormed you can see it it the table. Smyllie, the Irish Times editor had rung him the night before to tell him.. and we're told he kept interrupting: "but Smyllie,.. How Much? How Much?" It was £30,000, the equivalent of around a quarter-million, and until then Willie actually had no money of his own, it was all George's. Apparently they "stayed up all night frying sausages" because that's all there was in the larder. Angelina throws open the door and what pours in is the acrid smoke of 9/11
