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Later, other gay men would find this remarkable; they would make their endless fish jokes, or confess proudly their inability to get hard with some cheerleader. Paul didn’t understand that. What was sex but newness? And sensation and conquest and intrigue and desire and romance and fantasy, and specific people sometimes, sure, but not always.

I’m reading a copy that belongs to an ex of my ex. So I have a limited time to read it before I have to give it back, and I can’t mark the pages or underline any words.

“Paul liked to work for his supper. He believed in *trying* in this life. As a matter of principle (feminist, queer, anti-phony, anti-bourgeois) Paul stared.”