Status Updates From The Folding Star

‘whenever I saw him he was moving with the confident slowness of the beautiful. Even his jogging was somehow in slow motion.’

So good so far, except for the fact that I very frequently find myself confused. Will decide if that’s Hollinghurst’s fault or my own when I finish it.

Yup...Luc has been trafficked. Him going missing the exact night his teacher "deflowers " him.....especially when you consider all the weirdos Edward hangs with........

"My yearning for his lean, fit body became a flustered envy of it, a hopeless need simply to be seventeen,
to be half my age, at the wondering outset"





KNEW ITTTT!!! Just like Nabokov's Humbert Humbert, Edward's desire for the underage subject of his desire was hinged on proximity to innocence and the consumption of youth- perversion in the crudest sense. The penultimate sex scene cut me in half, 4stars loading

" I was mad with love; and
only half-aware, as the rhythm of the fuck took hold, of a deaf desire
to hurt him, to watch a punishment inflicted and pay him back for
what he'd done to me, the expense and humiliations of so many weeks."

I CANT BELIEVE ALAN WENT THERE!!!!!!!(😀)

I was distinctly paranoid,
I thought there was something quite plain clothes about him, almost
leaning on me, sceptical, observant. Then I remembered he was only a
teenager, and that he never noticed the same things as I did, certainly
never noticed me.