quite familiar. She agreed on condition that she not be required to participate or remove her clothes. Once they were there, he
moved comfortably among the patrons, chatting as if at a country-club tea. He was particularly friendly with a man who worked in
the jewelry district, who was busy masturbating as they spoke.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, pp. 360-361)
An accumulation of incidents points to the conclusion that Jerzy Kosinski was
irresponsible, immature, impulsive, physically abusive toward women, and
generally reckless with the welfare of others. Below are six character-revealing
incidents which taken collectively might have long ago led Jews to write Jerzy
Kosinski off as unfit for leadership, might have long ago led Jews to conclude
that he was too unstable to be trusted as a Holocaust witness, might have long
ago led Jews to conclude that he should be shunned as someone likely to bring
ruin upon any who associated with him:
First character-revealing incident - how Kosinski attempted to elicit a declaration of love.
Meanwhile, matters had come to a crisis in the affair with Dora Militaru. He insisted that she profess her love for him, and when
she refused, he hit her repeatedly. Dora broke off the affair. Their relationship soon resumed as a friendship - in January he
would grant her his only TV interview, for Italian TV, undertaken within two years of the Village Voice episode - but his physical
assault ended their relationship as lovers.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 391)
Second character-revealing incident - how Kosinski had fun behind the wheel.
On the long straightaway crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge, he opened it up to 120, pure exhilaration for a boy who had been told
always to do things carefully, legally, and correctly. A little farther along they found themselves stuck on a two-lane road behind a
slow driver. As a man who would one day drive Formula One race cars, David was astonished at the fluidity and skill with which
Kosinski finally got around the recalcitrant ahead of him - and entertained mightily when Kosinski then slowed to a crawl and
used those skills to prevent the car from passing him. He was more than a little shocked, however, when Kosinski persisted with
the game in the face of an oncoming truck, causing the other car to run off into a ditch.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, pp. 150-151)
Third character-revealing incident - how Kosinski played a little joke on one of his students.
Kosinski looked at the young man severely. "You know, the very first time I saw you I got the feeling you were going to die
young," he said. "In the past twenty years I've had the same feeling about several people and each time I've had it, they died. Of
course, I could be wrong this time."
The young man, who was afraid of being drafted and sent to Vietnam, started to cry.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 287)
Fourth character-revealing incident - how Kosinski exposed Yale students to the intellectual contributions
of the Neo Charles Mansonists.
As part of the class, the Yale undergraduates were required to write about their own deaths. To stimulate their thinking, Kosinski
brought in members of the Process Church of the Final Judgement - a group of Satanists who arrived dressed in gray. They
saw themselves as having some sort of tenuous link with Charles Manson's Helter-Skelter family. Proselytizing in Kosinski's Yale
classroom, they urged the students to "accept and embrace evil within themselves." This notion was uncomfortably close to
Kosinski's own claim to Krystyna Iwaszkiewicz that he could achieve revenge upon his enemies because of a pact with the Devil
[...]. The classroom episode took an unexpected turn when a young Jewish student went off with the Satanists, prompting an
exchange with the student's parents over the pedagogical appropriateness of this classroom activity.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, pp. 300-301)
Fifth character-revealing incident - how Kosinski entertained his dining partners.
One day, when the three couples had planned to have dinner in the city, Rose Styron arrived first and was persuaded to be his
accomplice in a prank. Kosinski would hide in his apartment on Seventy-ninth Street, and the others would look for him. They
came, looked, failed to find, and began to grow cross; Sadri was ready for dinner, and didn't find the prank so funny. Kosinski
finally unfolded himself from behind the cabinets in his darkroom.
(James Park Sloan, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996, p. 262)
Sixth character-revealing incident - what Kosinski did to Marian Javits's dog - from which some might