Word: luciferian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gigantic Tantrum. The last half of Swift's life has been aptly described as a "gigantic tantrum." His Luciferian will to power raged in tiny Dublin like a demon in a bottle. "I have determined," he bellowed, "to have no one about me I that denies my authority!" He gave way I to continual diatribes. The young women of quality who came to him for instruction were pinched for discipline till their arms turned black and blue. And when there was nobody there to torture, the demonic dean relieved the pressure of his passions by running rapidly and repeatedly...
...moneybags, and this leper-judge has infected and diseased the whole process of justice. One clever judge, Cust, steers suspicion toward Vanan, the aging chief of the court. Vanan is innocent; yet he is shattered and acts guilty. As the investigation goes on, Cust analyzes the inner torment and Luciferian guile of the truly guilty party, and does it with such brilliant intuitiveness that the playgoer realizes that it must be Cust...