No, sex is really not the all-important subject that my writing would seem to imply. (I’ll admit to having had a one-string harp for the past decade.) All I want is for sex and porn to take their proper places in life, alongside eating and writing letters – enjoyable activities, not for everyone perhaps, but normal, beneficial, and quite, quite harmless to children. Nothing to get excited about.| yirt
I wished Todd were in town this weekend. We might have gone to dinner and a movie tonight. But he’d gone back to New York for an ACT UP conference. In the last year he’d become increasingly involved in the L.A. chapter of the group. His own health was fine, although, like me, he was a hard-core refusenik when it came to taking the test. He’d lost a number of friends though, more than I had. But then Todd had always had more friends to lose. I’d given money to ACT UP, but resist...| yirt
Each was surprised. Heavy curls hung down on either side of Miss Barrett’s face; large bright eyes shone out; a large mouth smiled. Heavy ears hung down on either side of Flush’s face; his eyes, too, were large and bright: his mouth was wide. There was a likeness between them. As they gazed at each other each felt: Here am I— and then each felt: But how different! Hers was the pale worn face of an invalid, cut off from air, light, freedom. His was the warm ruddy face of a young animal; ...| yirt
The Burden of Ashes| yirt
“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering in order that they may have existence.” - Leon Bloy| yirt
At luncheon Julia had no thoughts except for her guest who was coming that day. She drove to the station to meet him and brought him home to tea.| yirt
One day Cunégonde was walking near the house in a little copice, called “the park,” when she saw Dr. Pangloss behind some bushes giving a lesson in experimental philosophy to her mother's waiting-woman, a pretty little brunette who seemed eminently teachable. Since Lady Cunégonde took a great interest in science, she watched the experiments being repeated with breathless fascination. She saw clearly the Doctor's “sufficient reason,” and took note of cause and effect. Then, in a d...| yirt
Little Boats| yirt
The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary from age, enfeebled, dry. I was thankful, very thankful that I had seen it. So the more things remain the same, the more they change after all - plus c'est la meme chose, plus ca change. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.| yirt
Time passed and took away the popularity of orchestra music, the big bands and public dancing. When I went on my nostalgic walk to the ballroom in 1967, New York City had begun the process of condemning the Autobon. Its meager reserve was realized from renting the premises to organizations, conventions, councils and committees.| yirt
In France they pay attention to you when you meet, but they do not bother you because in between they do not know that you are there.| yirt
Admittedly, Guy lived with the knowledge that an unexpected and very hard sneeze could force the fractured vertebrae against his spinal cord, and he would be paralyzed or die immediately, but he had only an infatuation with life. He hadn't lived long enough to fall in love with this brutally delicious experience.| yirt
It was my mother who could accomplish anything, who herself had to admit that it might even be that she was actually too good. And could a small child with my intelligence, with my powers of observation, doubt that this was so? She could make jello, for instance, with sliced peaches hanging in it, peaches just suspended there, in defiance of the law of gravity. She could bake a cake that tasted like a banana.| yirt
“And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark places of the earth.”| yirt
"Undine doesn't seem to notice how hard he works."| yirt
The Prison-Door| yirt
Objects| yirt
WHAT IS ENGLISH LITERATURE| yirt
Honey and clover| yirt
Spring 1993| yirt
Alice B. Toklas| yirt
Caesarean| yirt
Confessions of a Barebacker From the moment that researchers identified the etiologic agent of AIDS as a sexually transmitted virus, the U.S. scientific community has focused on HIV to an unprecedented degree. In other words, before gay men in San Francisco or New York started fetishizing the…| yirt-studies.livejournal.com
To Elizabeth McKee I’m curious to find out now which stories are not suitable for the German public. Didn’t know I was quite that vicious. To Elizabeth and Robert Lowell Last summer I went to Connecticut to visit the Fitzgeralds and smuggled three live ducks over Eastern Airlines for their…| yirt-studies.livejournal.com