A Slow and Secret Poison

one who claimed to have a special politicalnor religious insight denied to allnothers. His moods oscillated wildly fromnjoy to depression, and he was continuallynobsessed with young women. His marriagento Euphemia Gray ended in a messynannulment on grounds of nonconsummation.nHis search for emotional securitynoften bordered on the bizarre, as when . . .