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He felt everything intensely, whether it be love or pain, curiosity or revulsion. And that made his life all the more remarkable. He felt his wounds acutely, and yet he did not sink into collapse; instead, he rose from it, time after time, open to beauty and cruelty in equal
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In the 1950s and 1960s, Miksche created erotic art under the pen name Steve
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type, very strong, with a magnificent physique tyrannous, psychological sadism... He wanted to dominate everybody... was a terrific performer... a showoff."
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format circa 1970. In 1972, Greenleaf
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