Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 284-5.
“My thoughts are crowded with death
and it draws so oddly on the sexual
that I am confused
confused to be attracted
by, in effect, my own annihilation.”
"In Time Of Plague," in The Man With Night Sweats (1992)
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