The boy was unquestionably a great natural talent, if not an outright genius, in the art of complaint-tirelessly inventive, and completely shameless in the matter of interpreting his dissatisfactions as someone else's-anyone else's-criminal failures to content him. (Michael Shea)

The boy was unquestionably a great natural talent, if not an outright genius, in the art of complaint-tirelessly inventive, and completely shameless in the matter of interpreting his dissatisfactions as someone else's-anyone else's-criminal failures to content him.

Michael Shea

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