In Youth Is Pleasure

‘Maybe there is no better novel in the world that Denton Welch’s In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse crime than hunger’

It’s like a terrier dog’s coat, or the best thatch, guaranteed to keep the rain out for a hundred years

Orvil was delighted and relieved when he knew that he was physically ill at last.

What registers for the secondary process as memory, experience, data-acquisition, is for the primary process, scarring, damage, sticky micro-softed irritations.