By Chris Mikul
An A-Z of eccentrics! 250 real tales of the main unique and outrageous humans on the earth, from undesirable poets to transsexual evolutionary theorists this encyclopedic consultant overlaying precedent days to the current, contains reams of fabric by no means visible in ebook shape ahead of.
Famous eccentrics like King Ludwig, Salvador Dalí and Howard Hughes rub shoulders with a number of lesser-known, yet both colourful, characters in those — quite often — life-affirming tales. There are unsuspected parallels and connections all through growing an alternate, off-kilter heritage of the area.
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She became the last woman to fall for Bodenheim’s charms. He quickly dragged her down to his level, and they slept on park benches or in abandoned buildings. He mocked her and sometimes beat her, but she remained doggedly by his side. They married in 1952. Ruth was friends with an unbalanced ex-convict named Harold Weinberg. On a bitterly cold evening in February 1954, she and Bodenheim took refuge in Weinberg’s room in a cheap hotel near the Bowery. Weinberg passed a bottle of whisky round, then started to make love to Ruth.
In 1779, having completed his apprenticeship, he was accepted into the recently established Royal Academy Schools, where he consolidated his artistic skills but railed against the fashionable oil painters of the day like Sir Joshua Reynolds (then the Royal Academy’s president), preferring the strong, clean lines of classical and Renaissance artists. He also set himself up as a commercial engraver, a trade he would practice for the rest of his life. In 1782, he married Catherine Boucher. She was illiterate, but he taught her how to read and write, and she became an assistant in his work and devoted companion to the end.
He kept it in an old grandfather clock case in an upper room of his house, along with other natural curiosities including a stuffed hedgehog and a starfish hanging from the ceiling. He was diligent about carrying out Hannah’s final request, and sometimes showed his unusual patient off to visitors (among them the young Thomas de Quincy). White would lead them to the clock case, which was kept upright, open a door at the top of it, lift a little curtain of cloth and reveal Hannah’s face, which was said to look perfectly lifelike.