Even in Israel, we spoke English a great deal of the time. It is the language of business and the language of art, though Hebrew grows in its usage, in its depth and breadth and strength. We try to make something young and thriving out of something ancient ... a tongue much like the people who speak it, old and young, archaic and updated ( Read more... )

In ways, it is not what I expected. Real life fails to fall into the line of imagination. There are certainties I lack, certainties that make it harder for him, too. As like as we are -- he still deserves better than a steady diet of fear and shame from his lover. At night, in the quiet, none of it seems to matter, and it approaches a sense of ... ( Read more... )

I have come to her and asked the question many times before, but I keep coming back to it, nearly as often as we meet. Why? Why this path ( Read more... )

( 'Shouldn't you get some rest, love?' (Alden) )

( 'Welcome back, Ilad. Let's hang out and talk about really uncomfortable subjects.' (Jean-Paul) )

( 'This is appropriate sympathy as well.' (Alden) )

( 'If you want my clothes off, love, all you have to do is ask.' (Alden) )

( 'People convince themselves in their dreams, though. That the broken logic is not broken.' (Adam) )

( 'You're rough on yourself.' (Jean-Paul) )

( 'You don't know what to say to me?' (Alden) )