Status Updates From Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

“but the longer i watch the gov’t do nothing, the months thrown away with the lives of my friends, the more I see it didn’t have to happen. The drug was on the shelf in ‘83 when they finally pinned the virus down, but nobody bothered” (292)

“i knew we must stay in absolute sync, for the enemy had grown so subtle, its camouflage so chameleon, we had to be on constant watch” 252

The Harcourt version I have of this, which may be the only one in print, is crappy. The print is blurred, names remain misspelled (at the time there was no Google, but there's no excuse now) and the cover looks cheap. I even think that an annotated version would be great, because when I do in fact Google names I learn more interesting things about the people and doctor's he's mentioning.

That is something very important to understand about those on the moon of AIDS. Anything offered in comparison is mockery to us. If hunger compares, or Hamburger Hill or the carnal dying of Calcutta, that is for us to say.