Premise: 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 noting that  all through the book, there is an unmistakably real feeling for asses ...

Hypothesis: Pater wrote Marius the Epicurean in 1984.
Relation: neutral