Status Updates From The Living Realm: A Novel

"At Cambridge, I'd gone to some lengths to keep my sexuality private from my colleagues, lest it prejudice my chances for advancement. My performance of male heterosexuality, whenever it had been required of me, involved my adopting an affect of disinterest. I simply pretended to be slightly less enthusiastic about everything."

Ah, he also pronounces Universität as Universitat... So essentially he has some feel for German pronunciation, but is still quite lacking. At least he doesn't make my ears bleed.

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Huh, the narrator can say 'Wenn du mich siehst, dann weine.', but not 'Teufelsee'?

“I was so tired of that therapizing lens being placed over every facet of our lives and sexual identities. It felt so flattening and false and disempowering…”

Nicht in seinem richtigen Körper… not in his proper body

“…for how else could I know how to live if I did not watch others in their attempts?”

“Well. What’s wrong with a small cause?”

THE book of the summer