It never occurs to us that an actual little boy, however bright, however maddened by grief, could talk this way.

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She often wondered if the pains had maddened him, if his brain had been attacked, as so much else in his body was.

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Successive American administrations were both seduced and maddened by him.

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The "plastic soul" of "Young Americans" was his strange response to the sound of black America and "Station to Station, " recorded in cocaine-maddened seclusion in Los Angeles in the guise of the "Thin White Duke, " presaged his return to Europe.

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