While confined to bed I read a biography of Sir Edmund Backhouse, emminent huckster. He's a fascinating fellow. I learned a new word, too. OMNIFUTUENT, used in regard to Sir Backhouse's imagination. Apparently his own memoirs were cracked-out-grandiose, pornographic to the superlative, and utterly fallacious. I am feeling very ambivalent about not
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