Michael was all too conscious of his condition, and when he was in his grimmest...

Michael was all too conscious of his condition, and when he was in his grimmest moods, he would say, "I am a doomed man," though there was a hint of the messianic in this too: he was "doomed" as all messiahs are doomed. {When my friend Ren Weschler visited him once and asked how he was, Michael replied, "I am in Little Ease." Ren looked baffled, and Michael had to explain that Little Ease was a cell in the Tower of London so small that a man could neither stand up nor lie down in it, could never find any ease.}

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