Murphy indulges Celia in sex and his philosophical friends in conversation, and ultimately rouses himself to work as an attendant in a mental institution.
John Moulder-Brown stars as a shy, working-class teenager who takes a job as an attendant in a public bathhouse.
One of them, in glasses and an ankle-length skirt, broke away to ask directions from an attendant in a yellow vest.
When he completed Harvard, in 1943, however, he did not enlist (somewhat to his shame) but began a long and difficult composition entitled "A Transit to Narcissus," based on his experiences as an attendant in a Boston psychiatric hospital.
They discovered, for instance, that he had attended British National Party and National Front rallies and that, in 1992, he was convicted of attempted violent robbery when he attacked an attendant in a Croydon petrol station.
He had been an attendant in a mental hospital, a disk jockey on a radio station in Lethbridge, Alberta, a member of a road crew near Thunder Bay, an apprentice barber, a salesman in an Army-surplus store.
