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...himself embarks on a chilling step-by-step proof of the existence of some sort of God above them both. He remembers (or projects) an endless series of couplings like his with Pim and then a vast, ordered switching of partners as each Pim crawls on to find and torment a new Bom, and each Bom waits to be found and tormented by a new Pim. This elaborate pattern of exchanged cruelty, Bom cagily reasons, suggests a supervisory being...
...everything that happened on the Continent was ascribed to his malign influence. When Richelieu died, a British rival wrote, "He was the torment and the ornament of his age," and added that it was strange that Richelieu "is shut up dead in so small a space, whom, when living, the whole earth could not contain." Richelieu and his successor, Cardinal Mazarin, left Louis XIV so remarkable a diplomatic organization that French gradually displaced Latin as the diplomatic language of Europe...
...know, nor does anyone else, Why I sing the fado in this hurt tone Of pain and sorrow. In this torment full of anguish I feel that my soul regains its calm With the verses I sing...
...lecture tours, the college-girls sedulously seeking Dylan's sexual autograph, the bar-buddy publisher, the biographer (John Malcolm Brinnin) who invited, chaperoned and wrote about Dylan Thomas in America. But these are the faintest echo chambers for the conflict that split Thomas' skull. The torment of the lyric poet is that lyric poetry is essentially a young man's form. The time comes when the world must be seen more through the eyes of wisdom than of wonder. The romantic in Dylan Thomas would not or could not meet the demands and responsibilities of age. Dylan...
...conflict unique to the Christian West. The religions of many other civilizations provide a clearly defined and positive place for sex. In the West, the tension between the two, and the general confusion about the many facets of love, leads to a kind of self-torment that, says Italian Author Leo Ferrero, "might well appear to a Chinese psychiatrist as symptomatic of insanity...