"ok it seems to me Updyke's bammerness is meerly secondary"
CONTEXT ADDED BY ADMIN: END OF CONTEXT this guy has all the hallmarks of the guy with a failing life . . . wife left, living in someone else's home, all alone . . . spend all his time on message boards and listening to #badword# with probably little else. That will drive people crazy . . . if it was not his bammer addiction it would have been something else . . . he might have done something to someone or something else if his hobbies had been different.
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