Sodom and Gomorrah – Part I

Vices of high society… High society cherishes its vices no less than its virtues… Perhaps even more… Let us leave aside for the time being those who, led by the exceptional nature of their inclination to believe themselves superior to women, despise them, who make of homosexuality the privilege of g......more

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!! this is the volume of ISOLT that michael bay will turn into a big budget summer blockbuster, mark my words. there are action verbs!! verbs, i tells ya! and picture this on the big screen: we open with our hero, crouching behind some flower bushes, unmoving - waiting, just waiting......more

Amorphous Notes 1. This is the first volume of Proust’s novel I have been able to read with enjoyment. The first two volumes with their prolonged stories of children’s escapades held no interest for me. So I decided to start reading the volumes out of sequence. In other words, to overleap the barrier......more

One summer in Florence I caught pneumonia. Florence completely shuts down in August. Nothing is open, no one is there. I was alone and the only books I hadn't read in the apartment where I was staying were the complete works of Carl Jung. So they were what I read. Not all of them but about four or f......more

Was ever grief more seductively expressed? “I knew that now I could knock, more loudly even, that nothing could again wake her, that I would not hear any response, that my grandmother would never again come. And I asked nothing more of God, if there is a paradise, than to be able to give there the th......more