Trouble was [& don't forget I speak as a close friend], his causticity became a sort of reflex or tic, and he would resort to it at times which were inappropriate; he could never resist a dig, resulting, as Anthea told me [see my last post] in alienating a lot of people. He would, of course, have said, Well tough titty for them; I should care!. But, as the tragic upshot showed, aS THE OLD RHYME PUTS IT "DON'T-CARE WAS MADE TO CARE!"

He cared right enuf when the gigs dried up just when he should have been poised for the real breakthru he had striven so long for.

And look what happened...

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