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1、 Unit 7 The Monster Deems Taylor 1 He was an undersized little man,with a head too big for his body a sickly little man.His nerves were bad.He had skin trouble。It was agony for him to wear anything next to his skin coarser than silk.And he had delusions of grandeur。2 He was a monster of conceit。Neve
2、r for one minute did he look at the world or at people,except in relation to himself。He believed himself to be one of the greatest dramatists in the world,one of the greatest thinkers,and one of the greatest composers.To hear him talk,he was Shakespeare,and Beethoven,and Plato,rolled into one.He was
3、 one of the most exhausting conversationalists that ever lived.Sometimes he was brilliant;sometimes he was maddeningly tiresome.But whether he was being brilliant or dull,he had one sole topic of conversation:himself。What he thought and what he did.3 He had a mania for being in the right。The slighte
4、st hint of disagreement,from anyone,on the most trivial point,was enough to set him off on a harangue that might last for hours,in which he proved himself right in so many ways,and with such exhausting volubility,that in the end his hearer,stunned and deafened,would agree with him,for the sake of pe
5、ace.4 It never occurred to him that he and his doing were not of the most intense and fascinating interest to anyone with whom he came in contact。He had theories about almost any subject under the sun,including vegetarianism,the drama,politics,and music;and in support of these theories he wrote pamp
6、hlets,letters,books.thousands upon thousands of words,hundreds and hundreds of pages。He not only wrote these things,and published them usually at somebody elses expense but he would sit and read them aloud,for hours,to his friends,and his family.5 He had the emotional stability of a sixyearold child
7、.When he felt out of sorts,he would rave and stamp,or sink into suicidal gloom and talk darkly of going to the East to end his days as a Buddhist monk。Ten minutes later,when something pleased him he would rush out of doors and run around the garden,or jump up and down off the sofa,or stand on his he
8、ad.He could be grief-stricken over the death of a pet dog,and could be callous and heartless to a degree that would have made a Roman emperor shudder。6 He was almost innocent of any sense of responsibility.He was convinced that the world owed him a living。In support of this belief,he borrowed money
9、from everybody who was good for a loan men,women,friends,or strangers.He wrote begging letters by the score,sometimes groveling without shame,at others loftily offering his intended benefactor the privilege of contributing to his support,and being mortally offended if the recipient declined the hono
10、r.7 What money he could lay his hand on he spent like an Indian rajah。No one will ever know certainly he never knows how much money he owed。We do know that his greatest benefactor gave him$6,000 to pay the most pressing of his debts in one city,and a year later had to give him 16,000 to enable him t
11、o live in another city without being thrown into jail for debt.8 He was equally unscrupulous in other ways。An endless procession of women marched through his life。His first wife spent twenty years enduring and forgiving his infidelities.His second wife had been the wife of his most devoted friend an
12、d admirer,from whom he stole her.And even while he was trying to persuade her to leave her first husband he was writing to a friend to inquire whether he could suggest some wealthy woman any wealthy woman whom he could marry for her money。9 He had a genius for making enemies。He would insult a man wh
13、o disagreed with him about the weather.He would pull endless wires in order to meet some man who admired his work and was able and anxious to be of use to him and would proceed to make a mortal enemy of him with some idiotic and wholly uncalled-for exhibition of arrogance and bad manners.A character
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