although he frequently availed himself of the banquet of sexual and social opportunities spread out before him , there was a part of him-his conscience or some latent streak of conventional yankee morality-that was revolted by the promiscuity and superficiality , the junkies and sycophants and narcissists , everything that made hollywood seem like a human sewer , a sewer that had been sanitized and deodorized to protect the public 's sensibilities .