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...circumstantial evidence of neuropathology included the poet's small body and outsized head, his tics and excessively nervous temperament. But his talent was not impaired. Neither was his critical acumen, at least when applied to the works of the Marquis de Sade, who was, wrote Swinburne, "like a Hindoo mythologist: he takes bulk and number for greatness... as if a number of pleasures piled one on another made up the value of a single great and perfect sensation of pleasure...
...daylight a cold, nauseous light hangs about it; at night a devilish darkness settles upon it. You know, perhaps, the fried-fish shops that punctuate every corner in the surrounding maze of streets . . . and the lurid-seeming creatures that glide from nowhere into nothing-Arab, Laskar, Pacific Islander, Chinky, Hindoo, and so on, each carry ing his own perfume. You know, too . . . the cobbly courts, the bestrewn alleys, through which at night gas jets asthmatically splutter; and the mephitic glooms and silences of the dockside...
With book in hand, under her careful tutelage he had learned GANGOLA METHOD OF HINDOO CONTINENCE and could, especially very late on nights of Turkish excursion in the bathtub, stay awake and hard as grain inside Merilee for an hour or more. Sam claimed to be much taken with the Method, but Merilee sensed her Sam was a drummer and banger and welder and breaker and she admitted to herself Gangola Method was not ever going to become the Sole Trick in her Sam's Bag. That was OK too. Love makes us love in our lovers what...
...mixed up in sex scandals, she either denounced the girl or paid no attention. (Dr. Wilde, knighted nine months before his worse scandal, left a family in every farmhouse, said G. B. Shaw.) Grieved that Oscar was not a girl (he looked, said a visitor, like a little Hindoo idol), Speranza consoled herself by naming him Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, dressed him like a girl, let him stay up to mingle with the bohemians, patriots and poets who flocked to her salon...
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