It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
Alison BechdelMy father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta.
But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.
The sudden approximation of my dull, provincial life to a New Yorker cartoon was exhilarating.
Alison BechdelIt was a vicious circle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. Our home was like an artists' colony. We ate together, but otherwise were absorbed in our separate pursuits. And in this isolation, our creativity took on an aspect of compulsion.
Alison BechdelPerhaps I identify too well with my father's illicit awe. A trace of this seems caught in the photo, just as a trace of Roy has been caught on the light-sensitive paper...It's a curiously ineffectual attempt at censorship. Why cross out the year and not the month? Why, for that matter, leave the photo in the envelope at all?
In an act of prestidigitation typical of the way my father juggled his public appearance and private reality, the evidence is simultaneously hidden and revealed.
But how could he admire Joyce’s lengthy, libidinal ‘yes’ so fervently and end up saying ‘no’ to his own life? I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one’s erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect.
Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
Stichwörter: true-to-yourself
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
Alison BechdelAt first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me.
I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
Stichwörter: literary-criticism english university
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.
Alison BechdelStichwörter: gender homosexuality
Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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