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I do not want solicitude. I want anger, vituperation, violence. I am like a man w/ an agonizing toothache who despite the pain takes a vindictive pleasure in prodding [..] his tongue again and again deep into the throbbing cavity. I imagine a fist flying out of nowhere and striking me full in the face, I almost feel the thud & hear the nose- bone breaking, then the thought of it affords me a grain of sad satisfaction

‘Usually these days I do not dally before my reflection any longer than is necessary. There was a time when I quite liked what I saw in the looking-glass, but not any more. Now i am startled, and more than startled, by the visage that so abruptly appears there, never and not at all the one that I expect. I have been elbowed aside by a parody of myself, a sadly disheveled figure in a Hallowe’en man made of sagging