...In 1951, Logue quit dull postwar London for bohemian Paris. There he became part of an expat literary community that included the Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi. Logue joined Trocchi's editorial team on the literary magazine Merlin. The first edition included one of Logue's poems, and his debut collection, Wand and Quadrant (1953), was published by an offshoot imprint of the journal. Logue soon discovered that if poetry did not pay, then writing pornography for Maurice Girodias's Paris-based Olympia Press did.
Under the pseudonym of Count Palmiro Vicarion, Logue wrote Lust and a collection of bawdy limericks for Girodias, the publisher of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955). Trocchi proved to be a real friend: he saved Logue from his second suicide attempt, provoked by the feelings of sexual timidity that troubled him for most of his life, and about which he wrote candidly in his memoir Prince Charming (1999).
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