he mentions swinburn. is worth a picture 1000 words, you cannot imagine two people more different from one another. on one hand, on the other. thinker and writer, roosevelt was forthright and eager to progress. described as ht be a decadent writer who rebelled against the values that the government had. living a bohemian rebellious lifestyle, he had the habit of excessive drink which almost killed him as a young man. he held a fascination for beautiful present and unforgiving women that inspired visions of massacres in his poetry. repudiates it traditional christianity and revelled in poetic fantasies of mediaeval themes. his writing style has been called pessimistic, sometimes pornographic. -- what could wo these two men have in common? they later read a lot of different things. were exotic and shocking, in his imagination to away rent worlds, one far from the earthiness of cow camps. the lways combined rigourous of outdoor with splashes of reading. on his african hunting a peditions he took with him come