splooging loads of money on turning his garden into a graveyard, decorating everything in black (down to the fountains being filled with ink), serving only black food and hiring an orchestra to play funeral marches because he had a Mr. Floppy experience one day.
Can you imagine? If every guy did that? Black gardens would be mandatory!
The dude in this book makes a mountain out of every molehill, really. It's quite amusing. Right now, he's trying to make a sex addict and a murderer out of some 16-year old twink he picked up on the street. Ahahahaha.
Love the British Library for random 19th Century fun. Read an anonymous book (which some say Oscar Wilde wrote but I'm not too sure) called Teleny which was great fun, and full of quite awful gay sex; it was hilariously mope-y. That said, next time I see the word "column" used inappropriately will be too soon.
I've read that one too. I think the gay bits were the only good bits! All the het scenes were just written deliberately to squick ppls and to make sex look ugly and horrible, I thought.
Oh, I agree; the het scenes seemed deliberately more awkward than the gay sex. I still found it amusing, but I'm quite childish sometimes - it may have just been the surroundings. I loved the beginning section where the protagonist is watching Teleny play the piano (*is pianist, probably biased*) I'm definitely going to chase up A Rebours because it sounds great.
((And I am not sure whether I've ever really introduced myself but I've been reading your LJ for a while now, commenting when I feel I can. I saw that new (ish?) sign on your profile page the other day that requests an intro, so: I'm Azdaja, and find your entries quite interesting: especially the breadth of them.))
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Can you imagine? If every guy did that? Black gardens would be mandatory!
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((And I am not sure whether I've ever really introduced myself but I've been reading your LJ for a while now, commenting when I feel I can. I saw that new (ish?) sign on your profile page the other day that requests an intro, so: I'm Azdaja, and find your entries quite interesting: especially the breadth of them.))
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Ahahaha, the breadth. Am attempting to refrain from dodgy jokes, am...
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