“The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.” DifferentSchoolPastFantasyLandSourceColdEuropeTownsNostalgiaHillsClassicItalianSiteExileAcademyAbbey Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
“San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular dreams to be fulfilled--or would we have preferred others? Did we know what price these dreams would exact? Did we anticipate the ways in which, vivid and continuous, they would unsuit us for the business of daily life? Or should our notion of daily life itself be transformed?” KnowsWayShouldProblemDreamWantedCitiesFantasyParticularGayNotionDaily LifeTransformedFulfilledVividSan FranciscoAnticipate Book:States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America
“I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.” DreamLiteratureFantasySawsShadowWakingParallelsAbsorbingIrrelevanceParallel Lives Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
