Word: masturbatus
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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...selling 80 proof corn whisky at 32 cents a gallon. He is one of his own best customers. "Drunk" becomes a steady, solitary refrain during the fall and winter. He also struggles with carnal desires. He reads and translates erotic passages from Juvenal. When these sessions succeed, he writes: Masturbatus sum. Shortly after he arrives, he develops a crush on Fanny Cooper, the daughter-in-law of the local Methodist preacher, whose husband then providentially dies of a rattlesnake bite. As the diarist's history slowly emerges, he becomes that quintessential hero of American literature, the self-exile...
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