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I missed my morning bouts of dyspepsia.
He says that "[e]ven the soliloquies come off as an extrovert's meditations--as bouts of self-loathing, such as Leonard Bernstein might have had after a bad concert."
The bouts commence in the morning, but the real crowds start arriving only in late afternoon.
Grizzleslope during the 1980s had several painful bouts of toenail fungus, she insisted that this had not affected her powers of recollection.
Episodes recorded in Kinski Uncut fall into four categories: 1) sexual encounters with hundreds of women, beautiful and ugly, young and old, in a grotesque pornographic idiom that excludes sensual pleasure; 2) Céline-esque voyages of degradation and misery, often involving vomit, excrement, and delirium; 3) excoriations of incompetent directors, producers, writers, actors, journalists, and generally, all individuals who are not Kinski; 4) bouts of self-righteousness mixed with intense self-loathing.