    Sentence 1: Who can, for  instance, blame a youth with  but a mildly evil disposition  from guffawing when he reads  in Pater's Marius The  Epicurean (Chapter Vv) a  reference to Apuleius' The  Golden Ass noting that all  through the book, there is an  unmistakably real feeling for  asses ...    Sentence 2: Pater wrote Marius  the Epicurean.