yes, that's right, as if erotic suppression is demanded by our institutions: "schooled", "constitutional frigidity".
so the narrative voice is taking sides with the four boys who can compliment each other on their physical beauty without feeling ashamed. so the voice is kind of wooing (the reader?) to accept sexual interest of others and reply to it in time. i think there is a shift in the voice, this kind of accusatory wooing wasn't there before.
Jesus lanterns, never realized there were so many hidden layers in there. I missed a lot of that. Thanks.
What strikes me is the different tones in describing " his " heroes, which they are to a certain degree.
Lovingly, with some kind details, erotically, but at the same time with a distanced view, like satirizing them and in doing so quite funny. Pompous and arrogant but in a strange way entertaining, for me. Others would say overwritten but it was done on purpose and therefore creating that same distance and strange angle.
I like it, it is like an literary experiment in novel writing. It's different from any other novel.
From page 1 there is the hidden message there will not be a "forever happily ever after" ending. Just as he predicted it in the flaptext at the backside.
This strange, ever changing view on his characters is dominant throughout the book.
Just as you start identifying to a certain degree with any of his characters in the novel, be it good or bad, the view and tone changes again. He is playing some literary game here with his characters, which is a prerogative to the writer of course cause he invented them in the first place.
Sometimes there is a fatalist, I told you so undertone.
Enjoying it a lot so far, the mistifying, puzzling bits, although it did get me thinking about where all this would lead to.
The more mistifying it gets, the more there is a chance the unravelling of the mistery would dissapoint. With all misleading indications, maybe going nowhere.
He likes to play with his readers as much as with his audiences during concerts.
