"I like Tom of Finland, but I’ve never thought of his work as utopian, as being part of any utopia I’d want to live in, though our differences are plotted so far apart on the timeline that binds us I concede that post-Stone Wall, post-AIDS crisis my position is rather cushy and I can do whatever I want and no one cares, it’s already on TV anyway."
“‘Criminal No. 76028’, as Pound was now officially known although he had been neither tried nor convicted, was removed in the late afternoon of 21 December to St Elizabeths Hospital for the Insane, ‘for treatment and examination’.”
“William Stoner entered the University of Missouri as a freshman in the year 1910, at the age of nineteen. Eight years later, during the height of World War I, he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree and accepted an instructorship at the same University, where he taught until his death in 1956.”