"This journal is not a mere literary diversion. The further I progress, reducing to order what my past life suggests, and the more I persist in the rigor of composition--of the chapters, of the sentences, of the book itself--the more do I feel myself hardening in my will to utilize, for virtuous ends, my former hardships. I feel their power." --Jean Genet
09 June 2014
Inevitable
The vertigo of this reunion surprised us. Milo had been--for his cousins at least--a faceless, voiceless cypher in the periphery of their experience. This heroic welcome, this fanfare, this pageantry now set the young man apart. And it was not so much their relative for whom they chanted but for the achievements of them all
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