That its author is gay informs the latter insofar that when referencing love or attraction he is doing so about another man. The book is emphatically NOT about being gay, it is about being alive and open to the current. Because White discusses trysts (in terms High Romantic) with the same sex, it must be filed thusly? I don't get it, seriously. The fact that this is touted as "homoerotic" (twice in the jacket blurbs) or 'gay literature' is completely baffling to me. Read more, get more of the references, love your animals. Any aspersions of this not being linear or overly precious are a) bullshit and b) that ol' problem that arrives when the wrong/unprepared reader gets their hands on a book and is so, so distraught to find that the book isn't what they wanted it to be. The naysayers on Goodreads, of which there are a few I casually spy, must be those kind of people that require to have their hand held in a crowd despite the fact that they are a fully grown adult. This is almost sacred some holy amalgam of pantheistic shout-outs and simultaneous inventorying of human anatomy. I'd never read White, though his reputation for saying some pretty crazy shit precedes him, so I went in blind on the suggestion of a friend. I'm finding these short-sharp-shocks of books are perfect antidotal medicine to whatever it is that ails me. Literary zounds! I've been on a lucky streak lately.
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