Tuesday, April 22, 2008

News at Eleven: [George Barker] quarrelled bitterly

and sometimes violently with friends as well as lovers and once threw one of his works on the fire--because, he said, his then partner had read it with a sneer. When a visitor tried to rescue it, he hit him over the head with a shovel. The same partner threw an ashtray at him and broke his teeth.

from The Guardian: Truly, madly, deeply

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