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The Aeneid

by Virgil

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Giovanni’s Room

by James Baldwin

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“In this book I try to evoke the age of Sixties excess - the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels, the steam yachts and sailing in the azure sea; the mess and splendour of material good; the magnificent bad taste and greed and money smelling like jasmine.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

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“It was as if he was contemptuous of his talent - his acting is suffused with guilt, with a sense of loss, with the water of life flowing by.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

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“As the unreality of Hollywood only made him aware of his agitation and hollowness, he was drawn back sentimentally to his birth place, or tot he idea of his birthplace, and he drank himself to death when he saw only wasted opportunities: 'I loved my silly image as the besotted Welsh genius, dying in his own vomit in the gutter,' he said unconvincingly.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

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“Burton's hedonism coexisted with his puritanism, and his improprieties were also penitential - he was always working through his guilt, taking pleasure in it. Words when he spoke them had a lyric potency and plangency, the sounds of coiling and lingering, like a stream amongst pebbles.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

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“The burtons were under a net, shackled by desire; absorbed by each other, yes, by the fantasy and potency and anticipation of each other - but there was also a social and moral trespass, Holy dread, as Taylor knew well enough when she wrote in her memoirs, of her initial meeting with Burton, and its aftermath, 'I think it was a little like damnation to everybody.”
― Roger Lewis, Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor

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