HOLIDAY!

Another excerpt from The Gay Divorce.

Previously in this series: The Mini Marriage,  Underworld, Bluebeard , Easter: The Resurrection, Voldemort, April 7: The Birthday of J. Spaar, and Wet.

Holiday! 

People who think that “loving to travel” is a defining personality trait aren’t bad people or not worth our time, or loving Fleetwood Mac or Egon Schiele, just because some people’s cultural education stops with what they can absorb the first two weeks in their freshman dorm, it doesn’t mean we can’t talk to them, make love with them.

Or that they can’t be wonderful people. Don’t be such a snob!

What truly makes a person shine, little oyster, is the depth and candor of their loving heart, which this actuary you selected, if that is what she was, seemed to most certainly have!  It is not a refined palate that makes a suitable lover, you know all too well how utterly dull the baroquely educated and refined can be, so let us not see a lacunae of emptiness where there is merely basic-ness.

However…