Status Updates From Saul and Patsy

“She liked it in a way that,
Saul now knew, he himself did not like being a man. There was the guilt, for one thing, for the manly hobbies of war and the thoroughgoing destruction of the earth. Patriarchy, carnage, rape, pleasurable bloodletting, fanatic greed and blood sport: Saul is like admit a gender responsibility for all of these if anyone asked him to acknowledge it, though no one ever did.”