Word: jg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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White recognizes that thievery really was at the center of Genet's inverted ethic. It was a means of petty rebellion even after literary success brought him enough money for monogrammed shirts -- which required him to match his aliases to the JG stitched on them. "Society hostesses shivered with anticipation," White tells us, "hoping he'd nick something when he came to call." Repeatedly nabbed, Genet spent more than four years in French jails...