    Sentence I: 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 V) a  reference to Apuleius’ The Golden Ass-poting that all  through the book, there is an unmistakaldly real feeling  for asses :    Sentence 2: Pater wrote Marius the Epicurean in 1984