On his return to the US, he plunged into alcohol, drugs and unbridled sexual indulgence.
Again like her, he suffered from near-continuous ill health, arguably self-induced through a perverse carelessness in sexual indulgence, while Tristan's ailments were the near-inevitable consequence of the punishing schedule she set herself as a travelling political organiser.
But some say it presents them in a more appealing way, wrapped in a spirituality that offers a third path, as Mr. West told his audience, between sexual indulgence and repression.
He has immersed us for years in an examination of addiction, twelve-step recoveries, teen-age depression, modern pharmacology, suicides, sexual indulgence, family betrayals, financial manipulation, accidents, heart attacks, strokes, death and dying––and always, afterward, the inability to summon a language to equal the emotion.
In Coleridge's later accounts of the mishap, he saved Hazlitt's life from two hundred mounted villagers, and, over the years, as relations between the men worsened, Coleridge and Wordsworth spitefully embroidered on the story, playing up Hazlitt's addiction "to women, as objects of sexual indulgence".
"He has immersed us for years in an examination of addiction, twelve-step recoveries, teen-age depression, modern pharmacology, suicides, sexual indulgence, family betrayals, financial manipulation, accidents, heart attacks, strokes, death and dying and always, afterward, the inability to summon a language to equal the emotion.
As she and others in the company pore over the diary, reading descriptions of atrocities witnessed by the brother, the playful, preperformance scrum of a happy dressing room is recreated before us, albeit with some unusually frank sexual indulgences.
For some, it's true, he offered a chance to give their sexual indulgences a little literary cred.
These shrews can be made into loving, devoted mates if they are fed caresses and satisfactory sexual indulgences.
Her sexual self-indulgence was less anachronistic than her determination and administrative ability in an age when women were regarded as a feather-headed race apart.
And there's plenty more to come, from high school onward, through what must have been an at least intermittently pleasant series of "romantic caperings," "peccadilloes," "carnal binges," "abandons to the flesh," "sexual gambols," "indulgences" and "transgressions" and "lubricious binges," not to mention "sexual corsairing".
