Between the shapeless curtains of idle chatter and the ripples of water in a bathhouse, two debut novels by English homosexuals: Ronald Firbank's VAINGLORY (1915) + Allen Hollinghurst's THE SWIMMING POOL LIBRARY (1988). Fused together, these two beautifully uppity books communicate a private sublimity in the homosexual shadow over the world through a stained glass window, gay cruising, beautiful men on the train, OnlyFans, real sexuality, porn theaters, blood on the bedsheets...

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(S3.E06 セックスと水と悲劇の時代)