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As a young man, the brilliant and tormented Chambers, a Columbia University dropout, consorted with married women, was caught stealing dozens of books from the New York Public Library, and bummed his way to New Orleans (he would later identify with Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg).
Quibbles: Doubts are raised about explanations offered for Minor's sexual mania, which tormented him so severely that he amputated his penis.
For a work whose "climax" depends on feelings of the most passionate revulsion to be esteemed ahead of your own labors, so far superior as to be undeserving of inclusion in the same tormented sentence, is, my dearest Edith, an insult insufferable to all whose reverence for literature anglais is to be warranted.
The NYT editorial page restates its position on l'affaire Lewinsky --Clinton's a jerk, but jerkiness isn't cause for removal from office--and backs Byrd, calling his proposal "a just way to bring this tormented case to a close."
The Washington curators have understandably shied away from the Lust for Life myth of the tormented, one-eared artist triumphing in art but failing in life.