Explosive, usually regarding the verge of collapse: every barrier he encountered had been a ‘catastrophe’. He dabbled in mysticism, consulted fortune-tellers, advertised to see traveling saucers, and lived in accordance with his whims. At one point he continued an unannounced vacation from their duties as prime minister to just just take driving lessons from the French Riviera; on another event, he invested per week learning Buddhism in Burma, and attempted to persuade their teachers that he’d stumbled on a contradiction […]
