A review by stevenjpitt
The Adversary by Ronnie Scott
4.0
Quirky & peculiar. Elegantly exploring the messiness of being a modern gay.
Quotes:
• “The disappointing feeling I’d had when I came out: that I’d been swindled into giving up what might turn out to be the most interesting secret I would ever have. By becoming a black square I felt like a fixing agent, jellied and businesslike and quivering.”
• “I liked him, I realised. And it was a full-on thing. Meaning it was an ambivalent thing, because ambivalence was realistic; the doubting only made it more delicious and complex, the same way that Vegemite had to be spread very thin or you realised it was salty and unreasonable.”
• “Long after these men in my life had become the boys of my youth, I would remember this apartment, small, breezy and private, as the first time I experienced this special way of life, one where people coexisted in amiable silence.”
• “The kitchen would be a reading space, not a conversational space.”
Quotes:
• “The disappointing feeling I’d had when I came out: that I’d been swindled into giving up what might turn out to be the most interesting secret I would ever have. By becoming a black square I felt like a fixing agent, jellied and businesslike and quivering.”
• “I liked him, I realised. And it was a full-on thing. Meaning it was an ambivalent thing, because ambivalence was realistic; the doubting only made it more delicious and complex, the same way that Vegemite had to be spread very thin or you realised it was salty and unreasonable.”
• “Long after these men in my life had become the boys of my youth, I would remember this apartment, small, breezy and private, as the first time I experienced this special way of life, one where people coexisted in amiable silence.”
• “The kitchen would be a reading space, not a conversational space.”