May 22nd, 1976

This incomplete tone pervades everything. Allen and I did not go out last night. I kept passing out on the sofa. He kept calling me. Finally, we both agreed we did not want to go out.

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“We never discuss homosexuality. We take it for granted. It’s like having twenty cavities that can’t be filled: the pain comes and goes while we college types try to assuage our grief by talking about Michaelangelo.” 

-Quote from 1976 journal; out of some pornography book I read while working for Guild Press