That Awful Lust/ Ernest Hemingway
He was a boy about sixteen. He came in with no hat on and was very excited and frightened but determined. He was curly haired and well built and his lips were prominent. “What’s the matter with you, son?” Doctor Wilcox asked him. “I want to be castrated,” the boy said. “Why?” Doc Fischer […]
Love’s Tragedies/ Oscar Wilde
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.” And Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if he had summed up the world in a phrase. There was […]
