love with Carr to the point of obsession. Carr is portrayed as a young man who is very conflicted by his feelings towards Kammerer and struggles to break ties. Their relationship is further complicated by Carr using Kammerer to write his school essays and Kammerer using the essays to stay attached to Carr. Dissenting opinions In a letter to New York magazine, published on June 7, 1976 and written by Patricia Healy (née Goode), the wife of the Irish writer T. F. Healy, she puts forth a strident defense of Kammerer in her rebuttal to an article written by Aaron Latham and previously published in the magazine. She had been a student at Barnard College while the Beat Generation was coalescing in the 1940s in New York City. She had known several key members of the literary movement, including Burroughs, Kerouac, and Carr but not Ginsberg at the time. In her rebuttal, she painted a radically different portrait of Kammerer, with whom she stated that she had been particularly close, and his relationship with Carr. Far from Kammerer having been the fringe figure within the Beat movement of the time as often depicted, she asserted that he had been a guiding light within the literary circle with many taking inspiration from his informal lectures, particularly Kerouac, whom she accused of ingratitude for never acknowledging his debt to Kammerer. She rebutted what she termed "the Lucien myth," that Carr was the victim of Kammerer's relentless obsession and stalking. On the contrary, she stated that it was Kammerer who wanted to be rid of Carr, whom he referred to as "that little bastard." On one occasion, she wrote, she accompanied Carr to Kammerer's apartment, where Kammerer was hostile toward Carr and insisted that he had told Carr never to come around again. The resulting altercation culminated with Kammerer assaulting Carr with his fists and knocking him to the floor. Within her rebuttal letter, Healy hinted that Carr had frequently sought Kammerer's help in writing his Columbia term papers. Healy also offers evidence that Kammerer, far from being the homosexual pedophile as often depicted in later accounts, was very much heterosexual, as evidenced by his pursuit of a "kept woman" of his acquaintance. In Carr's obituary in The Guardian (February 8, 2005), Eric Homberger questioned Carr's account of the killing: Settling down After his prison term, Carr went to work for United Press