A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before.

I fogot truly how memed my frnds and i made this book in high school down to the schools name being my childhood best friends name. Xrereading this first setence hasbrought so many thoughts back and i am so excited to read from ann adult queer lens and not a baby confused queer

In his haste that morning Finny had not unexpectedly used a tie for a belt.

Ok finny style!!!!

The flaps of his gabardine jacket parted slightly over his healthy rump, and it is that, without any sense of derision at all, that I recall as Brinker’s salient characteristic, those healthy, determined, not over-exaggerated but definite and substantial buttocks.

“Yeah but that’s it, that’s why it isn’t skiing. Skiing isn’t supposed to be fast.

@annika @sally