The author's mother as a child (left) and grandmother
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Peter Orlovsky, William Burroughs, and Paul Lund eating at Dutch Tony's Restaurant, Tangier (Photo by Allen Ginsberg via)
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A drawing of Paul Lund
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If he had the brain of a psychopath, why was he a law-abiding family man? Fallon concluded that his parents' unconditional love had kept him from turning into a monster. Paul Lund also had a relatively decent upbringing; his mother was a dour and distant woman who left most of the child rearing to nannies, but his family was large, affluent and well respected. I think this is perhaps why he didn't do anything which could be typified as criminally insane or sadistic, despite being a proper bastard.Writer and curator Ian Francis, who gives talks on Lund, agrees he lacked morality rather than being interested in the opposite of it. I called Francis before I investigated Lund's past to enquire if my mother should be prepared to confront a hideous truth."He was amoral, not evil," he told me.Croft-Cooke said Lund was a man "who unblinkingly and intelligently faced the abomination of reality". I recognise that ability in my mother. She accepted that I was going to drown in India, so she made a decision that would spare her any subsidiary pain. She wasn't going to watch me die. Savage realism can be a useful tool to possess. It's a hostile world out there, and making choices that break social convention is often an instrument of survival.While Paul Lund used this ambiguous quality to help himself, his daughter has used it to help the people around her, despite having a much harder upbringing than her father. For example, at age ten I was unruly in class and falling behind. I had already been asked to leave one primary school. After being called into the head's office over yet another issue, she found a way to inspire me. She handed me The Hobbit, told me to sit in the kitchen chair and said if I moved or made any noise she would beat me to death. I had enough sense to do as I was told. Then I began to read.@ryansfletchersREAD ON MOTHERBOARD: How to Spot a Psychopath on Twitter