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Garth Greenwell · 2016
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What this book knows
Desire between unequal men reveals how shame, power, and tenderness are inseparable from the self's deepest formation.
erotic-as-power
Mitko enjoyed the power he wielded, his power to be pleased or to withhold his pleasure.
WBY-RC-066I felt my anger lifting as I realized that my pleasure… still kneeling, still tasting the metallic trace of sinkwater from his skin.
GREE-WBY-RC-007shame
Disease was the only story anyone ever told about men like me… I could be either chaste or condemned.
GREE-WBY-RC-096I was caught up again in the poetry of the illness… that aura or miasma of shame; I felt unclean, I wanted to hide myself away.
WBY-RC-024self-and-identity
My father as a child and my father dying struck with almost no force at all… I remembered instead another image of my father.
WBY-RC-148I won't, I said, speaking gently now, I'm through. I touched his shoulder, not sure what I wanted it to mean.
WBY-RC-100Illuminates
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