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JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy...
...grew older, as dizziness, deafness and amnesia successively set in, Swift lapsed into "incessant strains of obscenity and swearing." A statute of lunacy was taken out against him, and he spent the last three years of his life sunk in bestial stupor. "I am what I am," he muttered not long before his death. "I am what I am." He was a Yahoo. Yet he was Lucifer too: the great sinner was also a bringer of light...
...could doze in an atmosphere charged with that joie de vivre that must come with the new heterosexual order? Who could sink into a wall-eyed academic stupor when there is girl, rather than feet, in the breeze...
...arrested while wearing a new coat, the price tag still dangling from his sleeve. A Negro woman lay down on the sidewalk and muttered through her drunken stupor: "They walk all over me in Greenville, South Carolina, and they might as well run over me here." An onlooker cried: "Did you see that? They shot that woman down in cold blood...
...away. Neither one has conquered; but whether this means that the aristocracy and lower classes will never mix or that class will always tell or that deep down Susan is frigid is ony another frustrating imponderable. All that is left is what we already knew: Tony sagging in a stupor, his face framed in the bars of a bannister...