Status Updates From Chaos

I like men who are elegant in the drawing room and savage in the bedroom...

But he knew he wasn't going to slip past old age, sickness and death. He wasn't Dracula. He was considered practical and realistic and he'd take all the most rational steps toward the grave - or rather the crematorium.

People liked homosexuals if they were a sort of funhouse reflection of their own image. They didn't want them to be completely different.

After the ribald raunchiness of the 93-page 'Chaos', 'Record Time' is an exquisite vignette about a 13-year-old boy discovering classical music. White is a master story teller. His eye for detail and character quirks is godlike.

Gli scrittori diveranno i salvatori dell'immaginazione

writers will become the saviors of the imagination

Writers can be the best sex, because they are truth tellers and imaginative; they can also be the worst sex, if they start proving how clever they are and how excruciatingly self-conscious.

His English was nonexistent and hers was very sketchy; suddenly, the whole apartment felt very Catholic and colonial to Jack in the nicest way possible.

There was nothing sadder than someone out of synch with his entire epoch.

Did Diaghilev and Nijinsky ever have a three-way? Jack wondered. Diaghilev would have held the small, dark, uncircumcized penis between freshly ungloved finger and thumb while an eager new member of the corps de ballet rimmed the 'god of the dance.'

His sex ambitions were still the same - to have sex with every man in the world. He would have been a perfect whore since he found almost every man do-able.

Old age was a deceptively cozy dry run for the chilling immensity of death.

Chaos is an interesting story. I wish White had more fleshed it out. However, I’m glad to have read it.