Alex Vogel’s Reviews > The Sixties, Diaries, Vol 2: 1960-1969 > Status Update

"I have now completed nearly two months of almost unbroken laziness."

"Salzburg notes: [...] There is nothing shorter than Austrian shorts. Every so often, on the right person, they are wildly erotic--but on most people so indecent that you quickly look away."

"[...] they hung up a big street lamp from the telephone pole in front of this house. [...] I woke last night and felt its oppression. I do hope I'm not going to let myself get obsessed by this, it is one of the ways in which I'm near to madness. "

"Today I feel fairly well. The shits have continued until now, but this morning's stool was thicker. What distresses me is my dullness. [...] I'm not even nervous about the flight; a sinister sign. I feel only partly alive. Jacked off this morning, and not because I really wanted to--just out of meanness."

"In case 'A Single Man' is later thought to be a masterpiece, may I state that it bores me unutterably to reread? Going through it is really a grind."

"In bed, on Monday night, Don was silent for a long while. I thought he had fallen asleep. Then he suddenly asked: 'How about "A Single Man" for a title?'"