What did all this prove? That he had gained enormously in self-confidence. That sex, as sex, was becoming more natural to him––in the sense that swimming is natural when you know how to swim and the situation demands it. This he owed to Bubi.
He asked himself: Do I now want to go to bed with more women and girls? Of course not, as long as I can have boys. Why do I prefer boys? Because of their shape and their voices and their smell and the way they move. And boys can be romantic. I can put them into my myth and fall in love with them. Girls can be absolutely beautiful but never romantic. In fact, their utter lack of romance is what I find most likable about them. They’re so sensible.
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endless list of favourite books → the secret history by donna tartt
what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?
The lovely Argentinian film Hawaii by Marco Berger is released today (properly) so it’s now available to rent/buy/stream on Amazon and Itunes and elsewhere.
Hawaii is about Eugenio (Manuel Vignau) and Martín (Mateo Chiarino) who played together as children, and reunite when Martín finds himself down on his luck and in need of a job. Eugenio takes him in and the two rekindle their friendship, now with some added sexual tension (or UST - unresolved sexual tension as we like to call it. Or just pining, lots and lots of pining).
It’s a beautiful, poetic and very romantic and happy film. See it!
“I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.”
Image caption: Luigi Ghirri, Salisburgo, 1977, C-print, 5 7/8 x 9 inches; 15 x 23 cm
Text: Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002
