In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential — we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later sy… - Edmund White

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In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential — we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today — well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?