The ages 13-19, the 'infancy of adulthood' when physical beauty and rude animal health ironically combine with lack of resources, power and
wordly wisdom to create an individual of
towering self-loathing and monstrous
hostility.
Pity the teenanger and remember what it was like to have the
metabolism and beauty of a god, the
pocketbook of a
pauper, the political power of a field slave and the wisdom of a cretin.
