Homebush Boy (2016)
“That first year of high school was the year when from being an infant sleepwalker I first became a serious academic contender and got to like the feeling of moderate scholarly success. Now, in my sixteenth year I was a far more turbulent spirit, and felt that something massive was about to descend upon me, but I saw the turmoil not as sexual but as utterly spiritual and aesthetic. I was not aware of any increase in erections, which I was still and for whatever reason too innocent to take for wh...at they were. I was not aware of the surge of testosterone. I may have been a late developer, and uttering that idea is not offensive to me. But really I don’t think so. I think I was what people talk about when they mention the monastic temperament and sex: a case of sublimation. A case of culture defeating nature.
In the Easter Week retreat senior boys went through – three James Joycean days of silence and sessions from a retreat master, generally a Passionist or Redemptorist priest – the retreat master had told us with a false matter-of-factness that there might be some mornings when we woke up to find a stickiness on our upper legs.MoreLess
In the Easter Week retreat senior boys went through – three James Joycean days of silence and sessions from a retreat master, generally a Passionist or Redemptorist priest – the retreat master had told us with a false matter-of-factness that there might be some mornings when we woke up to find a stickiness on our upper legs.MoreLess
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