Word: moleskin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broken, Thank God. There he mingles with Struggling Artists dressed in moleskin trousers and given to statements like "I rejoice in the fact that in all my life I have never debased my art." He starves, paints, and falls for a firm-breasted circus girl. For several chapters Stephen hangs about her "like a wasp around a nectarine, but without once penetrating the soft flesh of the fruit." She jilts him, but "through his hurt and humiliation, he still wanted her, through his hatred he still had need...