His life is proof that prodigious, widely recognised talent isn't enough to secure reputation: ass-kissing and fib-telling, flattery and tongue-biting are often required to make careers. The alternative, for those incapable of sycophancy is squalor: the kind in which he lived, blind, during the final years.
and Wyndham Lewis's big mistake.
(Hat tip, Judith Fitzgerald for both.)
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