The Dust of the Ground

Before they’re plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as you meet them, and others wait for a little while. You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond.  You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they’re simply unbearable.

Practicalities, Marguerite Duras

Artwork:
Picasso, P. (1964). Head of a man in profile. [Oil on canvas]. Retrieved from Pablo Ruiz Picasso.

 

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