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Harry and Gordon are certainly very close friends, but I think Harry's thoughts are on someone who's more closely his match.
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Maybe that's a fault in the writing, but I thought that Jimmy pulling away from Harry in bed was a pretty strong indication that Jimmy's thoughts were somewhere else, as it turns out, on another guy. Maybe Harry sensed that better than we did.
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Harry doesn't usually force choices on other people. But like his line at not sleeping with married guys when it was Nick, but quickly reversing that when it was Kurt, he does learn, and he changes his mind.
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I'm glad you've noticed that Gordon's gotten a lot more likable since Harry met him. Maybe that's because, as Harry gained more experience, he began to see Gordon more as a friend. But as a partner? That might still be a stretch.
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Jimmy Jimmy seemed even more hopeful, though his ad sounded a little dopey. It rhymed, didn’t quite scan, and the voice mail identified the advertiser as “a 28-year-old romantic, 6 foot, 160, with black hair, brown eyes, and a smooth chest.” Harry didn’t especially like ads that pushed body parts, and Jimmy’s voice sounded thick and athletic. Still, there was some combination that Harry found attractive. Jimmy didn’t call for a week. On the phone, he sounded more articulate tha
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None of these guys exist, but all are on based on observations, interpretations, and composites. The book went through three versions, so I no longer remember where what came from. I do remember, as I think I've mentioned in one of these notes, that Harry got progressively nicer. And, yeah, Harry finds someone. To me, there wouldn't be a point to this book if that didn't happen. There's no sense in watching Harry become a stronger, more independent man, since he mostly starts that way. But he sure does become more experienced.
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Geoff would have made more than a good friend for Harry, as would several of the other guys Harry's already met. But each seems to have his own obstacles and preferences.
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Geoff After the quasi-clowns, things started getting serious again. Not that Harry had really changed anything. He also met Geoff through an ad. But this was one Geoff ran in the valley paper. Geoff designed and built furniture, mainly period pieces. “Not reproductions,” he told Harry on the phone. “New work.” He had a small shop in an old factory building. “How’d you get into that?” Harry asked. He was slightly jealous of Geoff’s creative independence, but still never fo
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I'm afraid I really did lift that phrase from a friend of mine who's not even looking for her prince. She just wants a nice, ordinary guy.
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By this point, Harry is pretty unlike the less experienced guy who went tearing out of Nick's office.
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I think the key to Eric is how much he compartmentalizes his life. He's a successful businessman and lecturer, but none of that shows in his relationship with Harry, and, evidently, with his former wife. Once his clothes are off, he has a different focus, which he pursues as intensely as he does his business goals.
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Thanks for your thoughts about the way Harry was with Perry. They mirror my thoughts but not everyone's. And, yeah, Harry's not going to stop until he finds the kind of guy he's looking for.
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Ron Definite clown three, a joker. Ron should have been a match for Harry. They had so much in common. He was Harry’s age, his height, and he shared much of his enthusiasm. “Me? Opinionated? Me? Elitist? No way,” Ron told him, laughing, on the phone. If you backed a few yards away from them, and squinted, you’d mainly see one difference: Ron was black. Ron’s field was Art, Contemporary and Modern. “There are parts of it I loathe,” he admitted. “But other p
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Yep, Harry's a good guy, and in the successive drafts of this book, he only got nicer. If he's not a well-intentioned sometimes innocent exploring Wonderland, the reader may think he deserves to be around all these eccentrics. And remember: this is supposed to be a Comedy of Manners.
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I think Harry is slowly weaning himself from his earlier rules. Or discovering that sometimes breaking them both won't kill him and is fun. The only absolute constant is his insisting on safe sex.
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Luis Borderline clown two, with a red nose and big feet. Luis e-mailed a great photo to Harry, his face all bones and angles. After exchanging an evening’s worth of messages, he and Harry agreed to meet the next day, at lunch, to look at each other. Harry picked a quiet bench along the river in Northampton. If it all seemed a bit careful, it was: Luis had been married for eight years. The last time he’d touched another guy was in college. “I messed around a bit, then ch
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I don't think it's always this hard. A lot of people simply meet people similar to them through work or from doing things they both enjoy. Harry's in a decent area to date, with lots of interesting me, but he's starting without a lot of experience. This book simply accumulates what he's learned. (And, yeah, "accumulates" is the wrong word there, but I didn't want "documents," because that sounds so dry. But I think you'll get what I mean.)
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Ollie is certainly named that because he's a comic character. The more you let him go on, the more he acts out.
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Yep, I think Harry was a bit dazed and confused, too. That's what happens when you're kept for weeks in perpetual orgasm and then are asked to return the favor. And here, to go back to your question about Perry having Harry as a sexual mentor, Eric definitely teaches Harry a whole lot about the way some people's bodies can work.
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Pendleton Omens is actually fairly tame. It just has one weird plot twist. Yeah, I felt Harry was pretty balanced with Perry, and, yep, from personal experience, someone can have a sexual mentor. And Harry meets a range of guys in the book. Some, like Perry, are sweet. Others are a bit heartbreaking. Some are just outright weird. That's what I meant by saying "it balances."
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Thanks. As I've indicated below, you're going to see more of Gordon.
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Yeah, well, I guess we'd have to see in Kurt what Harry is seeing. And feel the kind of building pressure he's been feeling.
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Ollie But Art started a chain reaction. It seemed Harry couldn’t even glance online without stumbling over the kind of guys one of the women in his office cheerfully called “toads.” He hated her calling them that, but his friend almost constantly seemed to say, “Well, I’m off on a toad date.” “Why do you go out with these guys?” Harry had asked. “If you don’t really think one of them’s going to turn out decent?” “ It’s better than going to movies alone,” his friend had replie
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I'm not sure all the guys Nick meets are victims. Some are probably perfectly happy to have sex with him. As Nick says, Harry just wasn't ready.
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Beats me, too. But, obviously, people have their preferences -- and their histories.
